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A HISTORY

OF

Steuben County, New York

AND ITS PKOPLK

BY
IRVIN W. NEAR

ILLUSTRATED

VOL. II

CHICAGO

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING CO.

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George B. Bradley, LL. D. — Among the many men of emi-
nence and influence that have honored the bar of Steuben eountj
is the Hon. George B. Bradley, who was actively engaged in the
practice of his profession in Corning, his present home, for upwards
of half a century. A man of broad and comprehensive knowledge,
his professional zeal and untiring industry made him a power upon
the bench, and his decisions were seldom reversed. After a long
and brilliant career he is now spending the closing years of his
useful life free from business cares, enjoying a well merited leisure.
He was born February 5, 1825, in Chenango county. New York,
where his parents were early settlers.

Having as a young man become proficient in the study of law
Mr. Bradley was admitted to the bar at Oswego, New York, in 1848,
and immediately began the practice of his profession in Addison,
remaining there four years. Locating in Corning in 1833 he has
since been an esteemed and honored resident of this city and one of
its leading attorneys. His ability and skill have met with a wide
recognition, and several years ago the University of Eochester con-
ferred upon him the degree of LL. D.

He has been active in many lines, and in 1872 was a member
of the Constitutional Commission for two terms. From 1873 until
1877 he was a member of the state senate, and in 1883 he was
elected Justice of the Supreme Court, being exceptionally well
equipped for a place upon the bench. For four years, from 1888
until 1892, Judge Bradley was a member of the Court of Appeals,
second division of the state. He was one of the organizers of the
First National Bank of Corning and is now serving as its vice-presi-
dent. A sound Democrat in politics the Judge has ever been an
active worker in the interests of his party.

William H. Prangen.— The present incumbent of the import-
ant office of postmaster of Homell, New York, is a native of New
York city, bom November 1, 1852. His father, Diedrich Prangen,
was born in Germany and came to the United States as a young
man, landing at New York. He spent some time in New York
in the grocery business and located in Homell about 1854, estab-
lishing himself in the same business. He died there at the age of
sixty-three years. He married Bthelind Wheeler, a native of
New York. They were married at Newburgh, New York, and lived
at JNew York city. Mrs. Prangen died at the age of thirty-eight

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years. They were parents of eleven children, of whom William H.
was the oldest and was two years of age when the family located

at Hornell. ^^ „ j \, >,„

William H. Prangen was educated at Hornell and when ne
reached manhood became much interested in public affairs He has
held various offices in the city and county and received the ap-
pointment to the office of postmaster in January, 1908, under tne
administration of President Roosevelt. He has been successtul in
life through his own efforts and has been self-supporting since
early years. When he was eighteen years of age he was made
yardmaster at Hornell for the Erie Railroad and held this position
fifteen years. He afterward embarked in business m other lines
and has for some time been proprietor of the City Steam Laundry
Company. He is interested in various enterprises and is engaged
in wholesale and retail dealing in ice. Mr. Prangen is a man of
remarkable business ability and has always shown that careful
attention to detail that is so essential to successful business. He is
well known and popular in the county and is a stanch supporter of
the Republican party. He is a member of the Masons in all its
degrees and also of the Elks. Religiously he is a member of the
Episcopal church.

Benton McConnell.— One of the most enterprising business
men of Hornellsville, New York, is Benton McConnell, president
of the McConnell Manufacturing Company, which has been doing
a thriving business for over forty years, though it has been incor-
porated but half that time. The business was established and
built up by Mr. McConnell, who has always been at the head of
the concern. He was born in Howard, Steuben county, New York,
November 28, 1832, and received his education in the common
schools. His father, Asa McConnell, was born in Orange county,
New York, and located in Steuben county at the age of seven
years, being brought here by his parents in 1808. Asa was a son of
Charles McConnell, also a. native of Orange , county, who became
one of the pioneers of Steuben county and located on a farm m
the vicinity of Howard about 1808. Asa McConnell grew up m
Steuben county and there received his education. He was there
married to Elizabeth Jones, who was born in that county, and they
located on a farm near his old home. Here he died at the age
of eighty-six and one-half years and she at the age of eighty-four.
They reared a family of seven children, four daughters and three
sons, and three are living at this writing. Jemima is a resident
of Hornellsville and Philo F. lives in London, England.

Benton McConnell is the oldest of the surviving family. At
the age of eighteen years he began working for his uncle as clerk
in a general store at Howard, and five years later he went west,
locating at Madison, Wisconsin. In 1861 he enlisted as regimental
(iiiartormaster of the Tenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. In
1863 he was appointed paymaster in the volunteer service and
remained in that capacity until the fall of 1865, having served

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more than four years. At the close of the war Mr. McConnell
engaged in the lumber business near Norfolk, Virginia, remaining
there until the spring of 1868, at which time he returned to
Steuben county and located at Hornellsville. He purchased prop-
erty and engaged in manufacturing sashes, doors and blinds. In
January, 1891, the company was incorporated under the name of
the McConnell Manufacturing Company. He has been successful
since embarking in the enterprise to a degree that is very gratify-
ing. Besides being a business man of energy and acumen he is
identified with the best interests of his community and is a repre-
sentative citizen.

Mr. McConnell was married in 1864 to Harriet Hopkins, of
Branchport, Yates county, New York, and they became the parents
of one daug'hter, Anna C, who married Shirley E. Brown, a prom-
inent lawyer of Hornellsville.

Thomas Niles Smith.— The Smith family has been prominent
in Steuben county. New York, for several generations, and the
members of this family have contributed their share toward the
development of this section of the state. Thomas Niles Smith,
now a farmer living near Kanona in Bath township, a native of
the county, born at Pulteney, August 6, 1844, son of Philip T.
and Anner (Dean) Smith. Philip was a son of |homas and
grandson of John Smith. John Smith was a Revolutionary soldier,
from Rhode Island, and his descendant, Thomas N. Smith, still
has the musket he carried in the war. His son, Thomas Smith,
was born in Putnam county. New York, and followed masonry
contracting most of his life. He married Hillech Smith of Otsego
county, and they continued to live in Putnam county several years
after their marriage, but finally moved to Steuben county in 1838,
where their last days were spent. He died in 1852, at the age of
seventy-two years, and his widow died in 1861, at tlie age of
eighty-one.

Philip T. Smith was born in Putnam county. New York,
November 21, 1801, and died in Steuben county, May 1, 1886. He
took up the masonry contracting business with his father and also
followed farming. About 1839 he and his father came to Steuben
county and the rest of the family followed later. They engaged in
farming in that county, and on account of his health Philip Smith
gave up contract work and devoted himself to his farm. He was
a good workman and an enterprising business man. He was a
member of the Baptist church but not active in political affairs.
His widow survived until June 23, 1895.

The education of Thomas Niles Smith was received in the
public schools of Steuben county and when about twenty years of
age he began farming with his father. A few years later he bought
110 acres where he now lives and he has added to his land until
he now has 240 acres of fine farming land. He has made most of
the improvements himself and is an industrious, progressive farmer.
He has erected substantial buildings and carries on his work in an

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able manner. He is engaged chiefly in general farming, but makes
a specialty of stock, keeping Short-horn cattle and Percheron horses.
He believes in the wisdom of keeping high-grade stock and in bring-
ing it into the county is doing a good turn to the community.

In 1896 Mr. Smith married Miss May Milliman, who was born
in the town of Fremont, Steuben county, daughter of John and
Ada (Bldridge) Milliman, the father a farmer. Mrs. Smith died
July 28, 1906, leaving children as follows : Bemice M., bom De-
cember 12, 1897 ; Ruth, born January 22, 1899 ; and Naomi Doro-
thy, born March 4, 1902. Mr. Smith belongs to the Blue Lodge
of Masons at Bath. He is a prominent Democrat and an active
worker in the interests of the party. He was candidate for the
office of county treasurer in the year 1894 and served three years
as treasurer of the Steuben County Agricultural Society, of which
he was also vice president four years. Mr. Smith is well known
through his community, where he is held in the highest esteem, not
only on account of his success as a farmer, but because of his many
good qualities of mind and heart. His wife also had many friends
and was a woman of good deeds and high character, interested in
every worthy cause. The family attend the Baptist church at
Bath.

Amort Houghton, Jr. — A publication of this kind exercises
its most important function when it pays tribute to the life and
labors of a distinguished citizen. Amory Houghton, Jr., rose to
prominence and prosperity through his own well directed efforts,
stood exponent of the most loyal citizenship, and the memory of his
noble personality will always be cherished and venerated in the city
of Coming, to whose civic and commercial prestige he contributed
in most generous measure. Measured by its beneficence, its recti-
tude, its productiveness, its unconscious altruism and its material
success, the life of the late Amory Houghton, Jr., counted for much,
and it is not the name alone but the man himself that it is hoped
this brief article may reveal, and that a tribute of honor may be
perpetuated where honor is well due.

Amory Houghton, Jr., was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
on the 20th of October, 1837, and his death occurred on the 5th of
November, 1909. He was the eldest son of Amory and Sophronia
(Oakes) Houghton, both representatives of sterling families founded
in New England in the Colonial era of our national history. The
original progenitors of the Houghton family in America settled in
Bolton, Massachusetts. Prom 1848 to 1851 the subject of this
memoir attended the boarding school conducted by Edward Hall, at
Ellington, Connecticut. Later he continued his studies in the high
school at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in which he was graduated as
a member of the class of 1854. In 1855 he began his business
career, concerning the salient points in which no better record can,
]jerhaps, be given than the following statements from the Corning
Daily Journal of Saturday, November 6, 1909, the day following
his death :

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"After spending three years in the service of Lawson Valentine,
in the varnish, paint and oil business in Boston, Massachusetts, he
became connected with the Union Glass Company, which his father
had founded in 1851 at Somerville, Massachusetts. For thirteen
years the father manufactured the finer quality of flint and colored
glassware at Somerville, when he removed, in 1864, to Brooklyn,
New York, where he purchased the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works.
At Brooklyn, Amory Houghton, Jr., was associated with his father
in the glass business and was a stockholder in the incorporated com-
pany. In 1868 the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works were induced to
remove to Corning, New York, largely through the representation
of Blias B. Hungerford, of Corning, that coal and wood to operate
the works would here be cheaper than in Brooklyn. The works were
established here as the Corning Flint Glass Company, the village
of Corning taking, through individuals, fifty thousand dollars of
stock, while the company, comprising Amory Houghton, Sr., Josiah
Oakes, George P. Bradford and Amory Houghton, Jr., took seventy-
five thousand dollars in stock and brought here from Brooklyn about
one hundred regular and skilled employes.

"As originally established in Corning the works of the Corning
Flint Glass Company covered about two acres and consisted of two
furnaces. For at least three years after its establishment the com-
pany conducted its operations at a heavy loss, the coal used not being
suited to its purpose, and the factory being brought into direct com-
petition with the larger and better equipped Pittsburg factories. In
1871 disaster came and the business was sold to Nathan Cushing,
of Boston, who placed in charge of it as manager Amory Houghton,
Jr. With an apparently gloomy future for the business, Mr. Hough-
ton began the management on slender capital, being often, as he ad-
mitted, hard put to pay the help ; but by running economically and
by devising and introducing specialties, the business at the end of
a year showed a small profit. In 1872 the new manager, then in
his thirty-fifth year, bought the establishment on credit, and for
three years thereafter he was the sole proprietor, working with
characteristic determination to make the business pay. The result
of his energy was soon apparent. In 1875 the Coming Glass Works
was incorporated with a capital of fifty thousand dollars and with
the following officers: Amory Houghton, Jr., president and treas-
urer; his brother, Charles F. Houghton, vice-president; and
Henry P. Sinclaire, Sr., secretary. From the time of such in-
corporation until his death Amory Houghton, Jr., continued as
head of the concern and one of its largest stockholders. In re-
cent years he had been ably assisted in the conduct of the business
by his two sons, Alanson B. and Arthur A. Houghton, and William
Sinclaire, younger son of the late Henry P. Sinclaire.

"Under the management and presidency of Amory Houghton,
Jr., the Corning Glass Works grew and thrived, the plant developing
year by year and frequent additions being made, until now it is one
of the largest glass-manufacturing establishments to be found any-

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where. As now constituted the glass works covers a number of acres
and gives employment, in busy times, to more than a thousand
persons. It has been the most potent factor in the growth and
prosperity of Corning. Amory Houghton, Jr., was ever a student.
As a boy in his father's factory in Somerville, Massachusetts, he de-
voted his attention to experiments in the composition and manufac-
ture of the various kinds of glass, and in this connection he had a
laboratory in which to pursue his studies and experimental work.
He was determined to know all about glass, and in time there was
no detail of the business in which he was not an adept. In the art
of mixing the ingredients which produced the most beautiful ware
he became recognized as one without a peer in the United States.
He had a firm grasp of principles and he perfected his knowledge of
glass jnanufacturing by tireless research and patient investigation.
;Mr. Houghton was a man of great energy and business sagacity.
He was not easily discouraged. He was not impulsive, but calm
and deliberative, thinking out a project before taking it up, care-
fully weighing it in its various phases and then determining upon
the course to be pursued. Once that was settled, he went straight
forward to the end, his indomitable will pushing aside all obstacles."

A number of years prior to the death of Mr. Houghton the
Hon. Harlo Hakes, of Hornellsville, gave the following estimate
of his sterling characteristics as a citizen and business man, and the
statements are well worthy of reproduction in this memoir: '"In
some respects Amory Houghton, Jr., is the fair reminder of his
father, every dominant trait, firin determination of character, having
been transmitted from sire to son, and its best results are seen in
the present prosperous condition of the Corning Glass Works. We
pay no fulsome compliment to our subject when we say that the suc-
cessful re-establishment of the glass works upon a secure and profit-
able basis was due to his personal effort, energy and determination.
Business men knew him to be straightforward and honest, and al-
though his resources in his early business career in Corning were
known to be limited, the business men gave him both, credit and
cash without asking security."

With the passing of years the earnest efforts of Mr. Houghton
found generous and worthy fruition in large and substantial suc-
cess, nbt only in connection with his glass-manufacturing operations
but also through judicious investments in coal and other properties.
Few men have shown a higher sense of stewardship, and success
meant to him not self-aggrandizement and narrowness of view but
rather greater opportunity for doing good as one of the world's
army of productive workers. It is gratifying to be able to enter at
this juncture further quotation from the memorial appearing in the
Corning Daily Journal at the time of his death, for the words of
appreciation indicate the consensus of popular opinion in the city
where he was best known and where his interests were long cen-
tered : "Increased resources were to him only a means for increased
usefulness. For years he had been the foremost contributor in Corn-

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ing to worthy causes. Xo good cause appealed to him in vain. Eyerv
measiire tending to advance the interests of Corning found in him
a generous supporter. To enlist his support of a public project was
to ensure its success. He was notable for his considerate treatment
of employes. He paid good wages and expected good service, but
he was never domineering or harsh. He listened patiently to com-
plaints; he even took time to investigate in small matters, so that
no injustice might be done. To those employes suffering from dis-
ability on account of age or illness he was especially kind and gener-
ous, the only condition imposed being silence as to the amount of
the donation or pension and also as to the name of the donor. Mr.
Houghton took pleasure in making satisfactory and noble use of
the means which he had accumulated by the strength of his brain,
the industry of his hands and the steady clearness of his vision. He
was a true and stanch friend of those whom he liked or whose good
opinion he valued. For many years the most influential citizen of
Corning, he never was arrogant, demonstrative or ostentatious in the
display of his power or his resources, but to the end of his da)'s he
was modest, simple and direct, like all great men. He was a rugged
type of man, with an inflexible standard of integrity. In business
as in private life he hewed to an unswerving line of honor and hon-
esty and uprightness."

That "man lives not to himself alone" is an assurance that is
amply verified in all the relations of life, but its pertinence is most
patent in those instances where persons have so employed their tal-
ents, so improved their opportunities and so marshaled their forces
as to gain prestige that transcends mere local limitations and finds
its angle of influence ever broadening in beneficence and human
helpfulness. There is both lesson and incentive in such a life as
that of Amory Houghton, Jr., and even the brief outline here of-
fered can but shadow forth the great strength and great nobility
of the man. He contributed in magnificent measure to the com-
mercial and civic advancement of Corning and in his death the city
and state suffered an irreparable loss. He was long a valued mem-
ber of the local board of education, and of the same was president
from 1892 until the time of his demise. Concerning his services in
this capacity the following statements have been made: "Although
engrossed in business affairs he was no figurehead on the board of
education but was its mainspring and directing genius, giving much
time and thought to the problems of school growth and being a
steady advocate of progress in school affairs. His long and valu-
able services on the board of education attest his public spirit and
his deep interest in the cause of education."

Though he accorded an unswerving allegiance to the Republican
party and showed a broad-minded interest in public affairs, ilr.
Houghton had no ambition for political office, and his only devia-
tion from his fixed rule was made in 1880, when he consented to
permit the use of his name as presidential elector on the ticket of
his party. During almost the entire period of his residence in
Corning Jfr. Houghton was a regular attendant at Christ church.

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Protestant Episcopal, of whose vestry he was a valued member from
1875 until the time of his death. The present beautiful edifice of
Christ church stands in a large degree due to his productive interest
and marked generosity.

Mr. Houghton's name is graven deeply and with firm distinc-
tion on the history of Corning, where his memory will long be re-
vered and honored for the good he did and the worthy life he lived.
He was a commanding figure in connection with the glass-manufac-
turing industry in the United States, and, as has been well said, he
made the name of Coming widely known to the commercial world,
and his signal infiuence and ability were felt and recognized in many
lines outside of the glass trade. The city of Coming on his death
lost a public-spirited and respected resident who, as the head of a
great industry, was long the largest individual employer of labor in
this city and county. The death of one thus conspicuously identified
with the growth and actively interested in the welfare of the com-
munity must be regarded as a public loss of no ordinary magnitude.

On the 19th of June, 1860, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Houghton to Ellen Anne Bigelow, daughter of Alanson Bigelow, of
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mrs. Houghton survives her honored
husband, and concerning their children the following brief data are
entered: Elizabeth Bigelow Houghton died at the age of one yearj
Alanson Bigelow Houghton is president of the Corning Glass Works
and Arthur Amory Houghton is vice-president of the same; Annie
Bangs Houghton remains with her widowed mother; and Clara
i label is the wife of Hon. William J. Tully, of New York.

John D. Tatloe is numbered among the representative busi-
ness men and highly esteemed citizens of Steuben county and for
the past fifteen years he has devoted his attention to real-estate
business and to dealing in produce. He maintains his residence
in Arkport, where he has served most acceptably as postmaster,
and he is at the present time supervisor of Hornellsville township.

John Dildine Taylor was born in Hornellsville, Steuben county,
on the 4th of December, 1868, and is a son of Thomas J. and
Charity A. (Dildine) Taylor, the former of whom was born on
the 12th of July, 18.38, in Livingston county, this state, and the
latter of whom was born in Hornellsville township on the 8th of
April, 1844. The father now resides at Arkport and the mother
was summoned to the life eternal on the 1st of June, 1890. The
latter was a daughter of John R. Dildine. Dr. Zaehariah, his son,
was one of the prominent physicians and surgeons of Steuben
county in the early days and who gave effective service as a surgeon
in the Union army during the Civil war. His brother Zeanas
likewise tendered his services in defense of the Union, havino- en-
listed in 1862 as a private and having served two years. Heathen
became disqualified for further service by reason of illness and
he died while en route to his home. Thomas J. Taylor is now-
living virtually retired ; he devoted the major portion of his active

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 515

career to farming and he is one of the venerable and honored
pioneer citizens of Steuben county. He is a Democrat in politics
and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, of which
his beloved and devoted wife was likewise a devout member.

John D. Taylor, whose name initiates this review, gained his
early educational discipline in the public schools of Arkport and
later he continued his studies at Almond, Allegany county, where
he remained with his maternal uncle. Dr. Dildine, for a period of
five years. That he nfkde good use of his educational advantages
is evident when it is noted that for two years, as a young man,
he was a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of
Steuben county. He then engaged in^ the general merchandise
business at Arkport and he continued to be successfully identified
with this line of enterprise for a period of twelve years, since
which time he has given his attention to dealing in produce and to
the handling of real-estate. He has built up a successful business
in both departments of his enterprise and is numbered among
the substantial and valued business men of his native county.

In politics Mr. Taylor is a staunch advocate of the principles
and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor in
a generic way and he served as postmaster at Arkport for a period
of eight years, under the administration of President Cleveland.
He was incumbent of the ofi&ee of supervisor of HornellsviUe town-
ship from 1889 to 1896 and in 1909 he was again elected to this
position, of which he has since continued in tenure and in which
his service has been, marked by progressive ideas and utmost loy-
alty. He has been a member of the Presbyterian church since 1883
and his wife likewise is a zealous member of the same church.

On the 26th of January, 1898, Mr. Taylor was united in mar-
riage to Miss Bertha E. Kridler, who was born at Arkport on the
6th of October, 1872, and who is a daughter of Cyrus_ and Eliza
(Willey) Kridler, both of whom were residents of Arkport at the
time of their death. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have three children,
whose names and respective dates of birth are here noted — Win-
field K., August 10. 1899 ; Leland B., February 16, 1901 ; and Ran-
dolph, October 14, 1903.

S. Lisle Hollistee.— One of the former citizens of Steuben
county who has become actively and prominently identified with
business interests in New York city is Mr. HoUister and he is
at the present time incumbent of the office of bookkeeper and gen-
eral clerk in the United States Trust Company, at 45-47 "Wall
street, one of the stanch and popular financial institutions of the
great metropolis.

Mr. Hollister claims the fine old Keystone state of the Union
as the place of his nativity, as he was bom at Dimock, Susque-
hanna county, Pennsylvania, on the 26th of January, 1882, and he
is a son of Amos B. and Harriet E. (Kent) Hollister, both of whom
were likewise born in Pennsylvania. When the subject of this

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review was a child of one year his parents removed to Painted
Post, Steuben county, where he was reared to adult age and where
his early educational training included a course in the high school.
This discipline was supplemented by a course in a business col-
lege at Elmira, this state, and also by further study in the Scran-
ton Business College at Scranton, Pennsylvania. After leaving
school he became secretary to Smith Table Co., at Warren, Penn-
sylvania, and later he was employed by the Belmar Manufacturing
Company of Canton, Pennsylvania. He finally returned to Painted
Post, where he entered the employ of IngersoU-Rand Co. His
next position was in the First National Bank at Hornellsville, New
York, and after leaving that place he removed to Kane, Pennsyl-
vania, from which place he removed to New York city, in 1907.
Here he became bookkeeper in the offices of the United States
Trust Company and he has since continued incumbent of this posi-
tion, as well as that of general clerk, being one of the popular and
valued executive men of the institution.

He is actively identified with the Steuben Society of New
York city and has found much pleasure in his association therewith.
He maintains his residence in Ridgewood, Bergen county, New
Jersey, one of the attractive suburbs accessible to New York city.
In politics Mr. HoUister gives his allegiance to the Republican
party and both he and his wife are members of the Episcopal
church.

In the year 1903 Mr. Hollister was united in marriage to Miss
Bella Irene Nash, daughter of Andrew J. Nash, of Canton, Penn-
sylvania, and the two children of this union are Jennie Irene and
Stuart Nash.

Nicholas J. Wagner.— Among those citizens of Steuben
county who belong to her in particular degree by reason of almost
life-long residence within her borders must be mentioned Nicholas
J. Wagner, a well-known agriculturist. He was born in Dans-
ville, Livingston county. New York, October 13, 1839, and he is
of Teutonic extraction. His parents were Jacob and Anna M.
(Grob) Wagner, natives of Prussia, who followed the example
of so many of those with whom they were associated and emi-
grated to the United States in May, 1837. In course of time they
found their way to Dansville, New York, where the father followed
his trade, which was that of a cabinet-maker. He subsequently
took up agriculture and moved onto land in Cohocton township in
1841. He lived here up to the time of his demise, which occurred
February 18, 1871. He was survived by his widow until January
6, 1878. These estimable people were the parents of eleven chil-
dren, nine of whom grew to maturity and seven of whom are still
living. They were : Mrs. William Cradler, Mrs. Mary Hart, Nich-
olas J., Catherine (deceased), Jacob, Wallace, George E., Harry
and Rose (twins— deceased), John and Emma.

Mr. Wagner, who was only a year and a half old when his

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parents moved to Steuben county, received his education in the
common schools and on his father's farm found that training in
the various phases of agriculture which has since served him so
well. When the Civil war broke out and the integrity of the union
was threatened, Mr. "Wagner was one of the most eager to give his
services. He was enrolled August 30, 1862, in Company I, New
York Volunteer Infantry, Department of the Gulf, and served
until September 20, 1865, at which time he was honorably dis-
charged. Mr. Wagner has a war record which is both interesting
and thrilling. He participated in numerous engagements, among
them the siege of Fort Hudson, Sabine Cross Roads, Pleasant Hill,
Sabine Pass, the surrender of Port Morgan, the siege of Spanish
Fort and the siege of Fort Blakeley, not to mention numerous minor
engagements. Mr. Wagner was wounded at Sabine Cross Roads,
his left hand being disabled. Another experience more exciting
than pleasant came about when he was one of a force of troops
engaged in patrolling the Mississippi. The boat which carried
them collided with another boat, causing the loss of forty-one men,
Mr. Wagner, however, escaping with a severe shaking up.

After the war Mr. Wagner resumed his farming and he has
enjoyed unqualified success in his chosen vocation. He owns in
Cohocton township one hundred and ten acres in a high state of
cultivation. His other property consists of a home in Cohocton
village.

Mr. Wagner has played a prominent part in the county in
which he makes his home. He has from time to time ably filled
various positions such as overseer of the poor, director of the Cem-
etery Association, and justice of the peace, which latter office he
still holds (1910). He belongs to the Rodney E. Harris Post, No.
240, Grand Army of the Republic, having been associated with it
since its organization October 17, 1881. For twenty-three years
he has held the ofSee of post commander, besides serving in various
minor capacities. He is a member of the Universalist church and'
a trustee of the same.

On February 4, 1866, Mr. Wagner was united in marriage to
Miss Caroline, daughter of Hiram Dewey. To this union two
children were born, Anna M. and Gard 0. D.

A. Daniel B. Geimley. — This busy and useful citizen of Steu-
ben county is one of the largest packers and shippers of grapes in
the world and his "Lyons" brand of grapes is known throughout
the civilized world. Mr. Grimley was bom in New York city, De-
cember 11, 1871. His father, Thomas Grimley, came to the United
States from England as a boy of seventeen. He had graduated in
pharmacy in his native land, and he eventually engaged in the
drug business in New York and prospered till 1880, when he died.
He married Frances Virginia Haight, who is living with her son,
aged sixty-three. She was a daughter of William Henry and
Fanny (Acker) Haight. Her father, who was a wholesale dealer

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in feed, died in 1860, and her mother died July 25, 1901, aged
seventy-six years. Mr. Grimley has a brother, T. Harry Grimley, of
Summitt, New Jersey.

Mr. Grimley left school at the age of seventeen and went into
the fruit business in New York city, in which he continued till
1894. He then came to Hammondsport in the interest of Lyon
Brothers, in whose employ he continued four years. In 1898 he
engaged in business on his own account, in association with others,
and in 1899 he bought in all other interests and improved and en-
larged his plant, which occupies the space of an ordinary block
or "square." His business consists principally in growing and
buying grapes and packing them in baskets. He employs in season
an average of one hundred and twenty-five people and ships an
average of five hundred thousand baskets of grapes per year. He
also manufactures fermented gi'ape juice, which is distributed from
New York city. His ice plant, an important adjunct to his busi-
ness, is one of the show places of Hammondsport. He is recognized
in the trade as one of the world's largest shippers of grapes and
his goods are known in all the markets on both continents.

Mr. Grimley is a Republican, and as such was elected mayor
of Hammondsport in 1889 and village trustee in 1907. He is a
very active and efficient worker in the interests of his party, its
principles and its nominees. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow and
a member of the Royal Arcanum. In 1900 he married Miss Clari-
bell IngersoU. She died in 1904, aged twenty-six. On April 7,
1909, he married Grace M. Casterline, daughter of Frank and
Emma Jane (Earley) Casterline. Her father, who is dead, was
of a family of pioneers in Steuben county.

QuiNCT W. Wellington. — Essentially and broadly American in
spirit and in achievement, possessing marked business ability and
sagacity, Quiney W. Wellington has gained distinctive recognition
as one of the foremost financiers of Corning, for forty and more
years having beeji at the head of the Q. W. Wellington Bank, the
leading financial institution of this part of Steuben county. He
was born December 27, 1832, in Moriah, Essex county. New York,
where his father settled on coming to this state from Vermont, his
place of nativity, in the early part of the nineteenth century. En-
dowed by nature with the energy, enterprise and sterling integrity
characteristic of his honored New England ancestors, he has success-
fully scaled the ladder of attainments from an errand boy in a
country store becoming a prosperous banker and capitalist in a
thriving city.

Making the rudimentary education which he obtained as a boy
in the rural schools serve as a firm foundation for the support of a
lofty structure of varied knowledge subsequently acquired in the
school of experience, Quiney W. Wellington began life for himself
as a clerk in a mercantile house in Pennsylvania, where, in partner-
ship with a friend, he was afterwards in business on his own account

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for a short time. Soon after attaining his majority he entered the
employ of the Xew York and Erie Eailroad Company, locating in
Corning. On terminating his connection with this road he entered
upon a field of action more congenial to his tastes, from 1859 until
1862 being in the employ of the George Washington Bank in Corn-
ing.

Having in those three years obtained a- practical insight into
the principles of banking, Mr. Wellington, in company with Samuel
Russell, Jr., organized the Q. W. Wellington & Company Bank, a
concern which has since received the support and confidence of Corn-
ing-'s business men and of the citizens in general. Mr. Eussell re-
tired from the firm many years ago, and Mr. Wellington's son, B.
W. Wellington, is now associated with him and is cashier of the
bank. Mr. Wellington is recognized by the patrons of his institu-
tion as a safe custodian of their funds, a sagacious officer and a
trustworthy adviser.

Public spirited and progressive, Mr. Wellington spares neither
time, energy nor expense in the advancement of enterprises having
for their object the development and improvement of Corning, his
adopted home. He has served as vice-president of the Corning Board
of Trade and as treasurer of its board of education. He belongs to
the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons and to the city
clubs.

Mr. Wellington married. May 13, 1857, Matilda B. Wickham, of
Tioga Eiver.

John J. Kane, D. V. S.— An able representative of the vet-
erinary profession in Steuben county, Dr. Kane is engaged in
practice and is one of the well known and popular citizens of the
county, where he is now serving as humane officer. He has here
followed the work of his profession for nearly thirty years and his
sterling attributes of character have retained to him the unequiv-
ocal confidence and esteem of the community.

Dr. Kane claims the fine old Keystone state of the Union as
the place of his nativity and he was born in the family home on
Vine street, in the city of Philadelphia, on the 15th of May, 1859.
He is a son of John J. and Mary Kane, the former of whom was
born at Yorkshire, England, and the latter in Tipperary, Ireland.
The father of the Doctor devoted the major portion of his active
career to veterinary surgery, and both he and his wife continued to
reside in Philadelphia until their death.

Dr. Kane gained his preliminary educational discipline in the
public schools of the cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore and in
preparation for the work of his chosen profession he entered Lolita
College of Veterinary Surgery in the city of Baltimore, Maryland,
in which he completed the prescribed course and in which he was
graduated as a member of the class of 1876. Shortly after his
graduation he came to Steuben county and engaged in the work of

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his profession at the True Blue Stock Farm, where he remained
three years. In 1886 he established an office in the village of Pratts-
burg and he has built up a large and successful practice, the while
he has gained a high reputation for his scientific knowledge and effi-
cient treatment of the diseases of domestic animals and has made
for himself a secure place in the esteem of the community. He
is a member of the New York State Veterinary Medical Society and
keeps in close touch with the advances made in his profession, in
which his success has been largely augmented in his fondness for
horses and other animals and his desire to see them properly cared
for and treated.

As humane officer of Steuben county he has been unflagging in
his efforts to protect all kinds of animals and he is known as a
man of generous impulses and most genial and engaging personal-
ity. The Doctor gives his political support to the Republican
party and he is identified with various social organizations of rep-
resentative character. He has never assumed connubial responsi-
bilities but it cannot be said that this fact has militated against his
social popularity.

William Wolfanger, who died at his home in Wayland
township, was numbered among the representative farmers and
highly esteemed citizens of his native county, where his active ca-
reer was marked by earnest and well directed industry and where
he gained a due measure of success as one of the world's noble
army of productive workers. He was born in Wayland township,
this county, on the 17th of June, 1850, and was a son of Nicholas
Wolfanger, who was born in Germany, in 1815, and who was
reared to maturity in his native land, where he continued to reside
until 1836, when he immigrated to America. He soon came to
Steuben county and in Wayland township he purchased one hun-
dred and thirty acres of land, which he reclaimed and placed
under effective cultivation; he continued to maintain his home in
this county until his death and was one of the sterling pioneers
of this section of the Empire state.

William Wolfanger was reared to maturity on the old home-
stead farm and early began to assist in its work and management,
so that he secured excellent training in the details of the great
basic industry to which he devoted his attention until he was
summoned to the life eternal. He was afforded the advantages of
the common schools and eventually he became one of the substan-
tial farmers of his native county, where his energy and good man-
agement enabled him to accumulate a competency. At the time
of his demise he was the owner of a well improved landed estate,
all in Wayland township, and after his death his widow removed
to the village of Wayland, where she has since maintained her
home, surrounded by a circle of leal and loyal friends.

Mr. Wolfanger was married to Miss Katharina Bill, who was
born and reared in Dansville township, this county. Her father

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was of stanch German lineage and was one of the substantial
farmers and stock growers of Steuben county for many years prior
to his death. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfanger became the parents of four
sons and one daughter, all of whom are living, and the sons are all
successful farmers of Wayland township. The names of the chil-
dren are as here noted : Jennie, Frank, Jacob, Arthur and
Edward.

CfiABLES W. Etz, cashier of the Bank of Steuben, Hornell,
is a descendant of a Revolutionary forefather and the son of a
Federal officer whose death was regarded in northern Pennsylvania
as one of the grievous tragedies of the Civil war. Two brothers
named Etz came over from Germany and joined in the fight of
the Colonies for liberty from British oppression. They were the
founders of the American family of Etz and one of them was
a lineal ancestor of the subject of this notice. Lieutenant Charles
O. Etz, a first lieutenant in the Fifty-seventh Regiment, Pennsyl-
vania Volunteer Infantry, enlisted at the beginning of the war of
the states and, in 1862, having completed his term of service, was
ready to return to his wife and son at Tioga, Tioga county, Penn-
sylvania, when he was killed. All in that little town and all in
the country round about mourned with the widow and orphan.
Lieutenant Etz was popular there, as indeed he was wherever he
was known, and his loss was accounted a blow to Tioga county.

Mr. Etz was born at Corning, New York, December 1, 1855,
a son of Lieutenant Charles 0. and Sarah (Wellington) Etz.
Mrs. Etz, a sister of Q. W. Wellington, long identified with the
banking interests of Corning, was born in Essex county, New
York, and has now attained to her seventy-sixth year. Charles
W., the only one of her children who grew to maturity, was
reared at Tioga, Pennsylvania and educated in the village school
there and at Alfred University, Alfred, New York. He has lived
at Hornell since 1874. Until 1902 he was connected in one capac-
ity or another with the First National Bank. In 1902 he was one
of the eight organizers of the Bank of Steuben, which is at this
time managed by the following named officers and directors:
President, William Richardson ; vice-president, L. W. Rockwell ;
cashier, Charles W. Etz ; assistant cashier, William E. Pittenger ;
directors, William Richardson, J. E. Walker, J. L. Rockwell,
William E. Pittenger, W. G. Hollands, S. S. Karr, H. G. Pierson,
Charles W. Etz, L. W. Rockwell, S. E. Brown, C. E. Shults, W.
H. Greenhow, George Hollands, Don L. Sharp and J. E. Schwar-
zenbach. Of this stanch institution Mr. Etz has been cashier from
the day it began business.

In 1888, Mr. Etz married Miss Anna Cadogan, a daughter
of Charles and Corrinne (Sweetland) Cadogan. Their son, David
C. Etz, died when he was nineteen years old. They have a daugh-
ter named Katharine. Mr. Etz has been a member of the Board
of Public Works since it was created and succeeded George T.
Rehn as its president. He was treasurer of the Chamber of Com-

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merce and also of the library board. He has been active to some
extent in local politics and wields a recognized influence in public
affairs. All in all, he is a public-spirited citizen of Hornell, to
whom his fellow citizens owe not a little.

Hon. Chaeles William Gillet was born at Addison, New
Yorlj, November 26, 1840, and was the only son of Joel D. Gillet
and Lucy Jane Patten.

The Gillet family descended from the French Huguenots who,
owing to religious persecutions, fled from their native home into
the Netherlands and came thence to America early in the Eigh-
teenth Century.

Aaron Gillet, born at Colchester, Connecticut, in 1732, had a
son named Solomon who married Martha Doolittle, sister of the
Hon. Mark Doolittle and of the Hon. Joel Doolittle of Middlebury,
Vermont, who was known as Judge Doolittle.

Solomon and Martha (Doolittle) Gillet reared a large family,
one of whom was Joel D. Gillet of Addison, the father of Charles
William Gillet.

Joel D. Gillet was born at Colchester, Connecticut, on the 27th
of August, 1809. He spent his youth at school and on his father's
farm and was often employed as a teacher in the common schools
of that section.

In April, 1835, he married Lucy Jane Patten, youngest daugh-
ter of David Patten of Salem, Connecticut, and in October of the
same year established his home at Addison, this county, where he
entered into partnership with his brother Solomon, in a general
merchandise enterprise. To this union were born three children,
namely: Frances Jane, now Mrs. David B. Winton, Emma Ma-
tilda, who died in her youth, and Charles William.

In 1838 Joel D. Gillet purchased his brother's interest in their
store and continued to operate the concern until twelve years later,
when failing health compelled him to seek other employment. He
later established a business in lumber in Addison, and in 1851
began buying timber land in central Wisconsin in the vicinity of
Oshkosh and Wausau. His operations in logging and manufac-
turing lumber gradually increased until it amounted to several
millions of feet annually.

Lucy Jane (Patten) Gillet, the mother of Charles William,
died in 1845, and in June, 1846, Joel D. married Catharine S.
Stowe, youngest daughter of Rev. William B. Stowe. Mr. and
Mrs. Gillet maintained their residence at Addison for many years,
celebrating their golden wedding at their home on the 2nd of June,
1896, three years before the death of Mrs. Gillet, which occurred
in 1899.

Mr. Gillet was identified with the growth of Addison from
the time that village numbered about two hundred and fifty inhab-
itants until the time of his death in 1902. He early interested him-
self in the public schools of Steuben countv and was one of the

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originators of the Addison Academy. He was a liberal contrib-
utor to the maintenance of the Presbyterian church, of which he
was an elder, and in 1889 built and endowed the Young Men's
Christian Association Building on South street.

Charles William Gillet, the subject of this review, came of
a long lived race. His parents gave him a physical make-up noble
and energetic, a mentality, ambitious, clear-sighted and honor-
able. His youth and boyhood were passed among the healthful
environments of the place of his nativity. He was prepared for
college at the Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, Delaware
county. New York, a famous institution in its time. He entered
Union College as a member of the class of 1861.

Ausbum Towner has interestingly related the story of his col-
lege days, which were also his soldier days. "Those were perilous
times for our country and that was a perilous year. Perhaps no-
where else in the land was the strain and appeal more deeply felt
than in our higher institutions of learning. It was natural that the
cultured and high-spirited should chafe and fret under the almost
despairing call of their country and be unsatisfied until they
could free themselves from all other ties and rush to her defense.
Many an academy and college was almost depopulated and whole
classes were wiped out of existence by the impetuous rush of the
young blood to get to the front. When young Gillet came home
for his spring vacation he was all afire to join his companions in
the camp. His course at college was almost completed and it was
predicted that the trouble would be over in ninety days. In view
of these facts, a compromise was made with the unwilling father
that the youth should return to his college duties, graduate, and
if at that time the war was still in progress, no impediment would
be placed in the way of his enlisting. He therefore returned to
Union to graduate, and became a member of the celebrated Union
College Zouaves, which furnished the Union army with more than
sixty commissioned officers. The next day after he received his
diploma, young Gillet enlisted as a private in Colonel Bailey's
'Steuben Rangers,' the Eighty-sixth Regiment, New York Volun-
teer Infantry, of which regiment he afterward became adjutant.
He served two years with honor and credit in an organization
noted for its gallantry; then, wounded and broken in health, he
was discharged from the army for disability and returned to
Addison to live."

Recovered in health, Mr. Gillet engaged in business enterprises,
and in them all he was successful and prosperous. He was always
a steadfast and conscientious Republican, active and earnest in the
advocacy of principles in which he believed and in furthering the
ends and aims of his party. He was for some years after 1877
postmaster at Addison, but until his election to Congress had
never held any other public office. He represented the Twenty-
ninth Congressional district of New York in that body from 1892
to 1904, for a period of twelve years. He gained; a large personal

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acquaintance in Washington, was familiar with all the duties in-
cumbent upon one occupying the position and was ready and will-
ing at all times, in' so far as he was able, to grant the demands
of his constituents. To those aequjainted with the difficulties in the
way of legislators it is pretty generally known that in Washington
the "first-termer" is scarcely recognized and that the average
congressman does not become conspicuous among his fellows for
many years. But Mr. Gillet was not an average congressman — he
was better. He won the chairmanship of the committee on Ex-
penditures in the Department of Agriculture in four years and his
influence steadily increased. In 1894 he was appointed a member
of the committee of Public Buildings and Grounds, which is re-
garded as one of the most important in Congress, and in 1902
became its chairman. He was one of the most easily approached of
public men and was prompt in pushing forward the interests of
the district that he so ably represented. During the sessions of
Congress he was always at his post and his advice came to be
sought by men wlw shaped legislation. It is doubtful if any con-
gressman in the United States stood higher in his district for honor
and integrity or for intelligence and culture than did he.

His attractive personality, lovable disposition and broad sym-
pathy drew men to him, so that his companionship was always
a pleasure. His kindness and encouragement to young men meant
a great deal to them. No word of praise can adequately express
the love which his friends bore him and it can be truly said that
he was a most lovable, high-minded and public-spirited man.

On September 1, 1864, Mr. Gillet married Miss Augusta E.
Comstock, daughter of General William Comstock of Laurens,
Otsego coimty, New York, and a niece of Colonel Hiram Bostwick,
one of the earliest and most prominent citizens of Corning, this
county.

Two children were born to this union, namely: Frances A.,
who is now Mrs. W. H. Stradella of North Tonawanda, New York,
and Katharine M., wife of C. M. Wales of New York City. Mr.
Gillet died on the 31st day of December, 1908. Mrs. Gillet survives
her honored husband and maintains her residence at Addison.

A few extracts from a Memorial written by Rev. Daniel
Mackay and delivered at Addison are here inserted :

"Be thou faithful until death and I will give thee the crown
of life." Rev. 2:10.

This text expresses the most prominent characteristic of the
man whose life I wish to hold up to you as an example— namely,
faithfulness. This, indeed, is the use of a memorial sermon and
the chief reason why it should be preached. Were he not an ex-
emplary man, better let the mantle of silence fall upon his memory.
But, the Hon. Charles William Gillet was a type of manhood we
rarely find, worthy to be held before the young, and a pattern of
faithfulness for business men. His fulfillment of promises, his
conscientious discharge of obligations, his truthfulness of state-
ment, his fidelity to confidence, his loyalty to friends, and his dili-

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gence in work, give a elose-at-hand model for imitation. We
sometimes speak of men with world-wide reputation of whose
private life we know little, whom we measure and admire for their
public acts alone; but here is a man, who spent all his life in our
midst, whom we know at close range, and whose conduct has stood
the limelight of personal scrutiny, whom we always found a genu-
ine Christian gentleman— he should become to us a greater inspir-
ation to good citizenship and a stronger incentive to right living,
because of our intimate acquaintance. And so I hold up to you
our respected townsman, beloved friend and fellow-worshipper,
as an example for you to follow with this important limitation,
' ' even as he followed Christ. ' '

All through his life he adhered to the supreme law of right-
eousness. I do not believe his integrity has ever been questioned.
We may differ with such men, but we can never lose our respect for
them. People say, "Men can't be in politics and be honest."
Here was an honest man, a statesman, not a politician. And the
day is coming when none but honest men can be the representa-
tives of the people. If one place more than another needs honest
men, that place is our Assembly and our Congress.

Mr. Gillet was an example of the kind of man we need for
office. Faithful to his trust — a man of truth — man of sound judg-
ment, a man who abhorred evil, and a man in sympathy with the
needs of the people. I believe it was Walpole, Prime Minister of
Great Britain, who first used the expression, "Every man has his
price." No price could purchase Congressman Gillet 's honor or
integrity. There did not hang on the tree of national patronage
a golden apple, which would seduce him from rectitude.

Benevolence as well as fidelity marked his whole career. The
scriptural injunction of not letting the left hand know what the
right hand did was followed in all the acts of liberality that came
from his hand.

The personal sentiment of the board of trustees of the Pres-
byterian church, Addison, New York, is manifest in the following
memorial, which was ordered spread on the records of the society :

We meet to-night under the saddest circumstances that ever
eonfronted our board. Charles W. Gillet has passed from our
midst and left a vacancy which will last forever. No language can
express our sorrow, no words can convey the sadness his untimely
death has caused us.

Mr. Gillet since early manhood has been identified with the
afi:airs of our church. His time, energy and purse were always
at her command, and not only in our own church but in all other
Christian denominations was his generosity felt, and our whole
community mourns his death.

When a lonely and obscure man falls by the wayside the whole
household grieves, but when one who has reached high attain-
ments in life is called home by God, the blow falls with crushing
effect upon all who are left behind.

Our deceased brother was one who bore his honors modestly

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smd was everywhere recognized and known as a generous, warm-
hearted, true Christian gentleman.

Dated January 6, 1909. A. G. Crane, Chairman;

George I. Teue,
George H. Weatheeby,
Charles A. Brewster.
Charles D. Reynolds, Clerk.

FROM THE "annals'' OF CONFUCIUS.

"The highest study of all is that which teaches us to develop
those principles of purity and perfect virtue, which Heaven be-
stowed upon us at our birth, in order that we may acquire the
power of influencing for good those amongst whom we are placed,
by our precepts and example."

This exemplifies the life and character of Charles William
Gillet.

John Coumbe is associated with the industrial life of the city
of Bath as a photographer, and he has achieved success and a high
place in the profession. He was born at Cornwall, England,
October 10, 1849, a son of Henry and Ann Budge (Gaunter)
Coumbe, the father born in 1805 and the mother in 1806. The
father, both a butcher and a farmer, died during the infancy of
his son John, and the widowed mother afterward came with her
family to America, spending some time in Sault Ste. Marie, Michi-
gan, then nine years in Canada, from 1865 resided for five years
in Ulster county, New York, while during the following eighteen
years their home was in Dutchess county, this state, and on the 2d
of May, 1890, they located in the city of Bath.

John Coumbe is the only one of his parents' family now liv-
ing. He was a lad of eight when he arrived in America, and
after leaving the school room he followed copper mining until the
age of seventeen. After spending three years with his brother-
in-law in a limestone quarry at Kingston in Ulster county he
began his preparation for the profession of photography, and has
long been one of its leading representatives in the city of Bath.
He continued to care for his widowed mother until her death, and
he chose for his wife Fanny L. Brandow, who was born at Pough-
keepsie. New York, November 23, 1849, a daughter of Nelson P.
and Emeline (Kipp) Brandow, who were born in Greene county,
this state, the father being by trade a tinsmith. A son, Harry B.,
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Coumbe on the 18th of December, 1888,
and he is a drug clerk in Bath.

Judge Arthur H. Erwin represents all that is noteworthy in
the citizenship of Steuben county in all periods of its history—
the period of the pioneer, the period before the war, the Civil
war period and the period since that great struggle. No history of
the county could be written without mention of the name of Erwin,
which is interwoven with many of its noteworthy events and has

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been perpetuated in that of one of its largest and most important
townships, all of which was once owned by his ancestor.

Judge Erwin was bom at Painted Post May 10, 1844, a son of
Arthur H. Erwin, himself a native of the township of Erwin,
born November 26, 1803, whose entire life, which ended August 1,
1863, was passed in that township. In his earlier years Arthur H.
Erwin was a merchant at Painted Post, but during most of it he
was an extensive and successful farmer and lumberman. He mar-
ried Prances Maria McKeen, daughter of William and Rebecca
McKeen and a native of Easton, Pennsylvania, born in 1808, who
was brought to Erwin township in her childhood by her parents,
who were early settlers there. Captain Samuel Erwin, father of
Arthur H. Erwin and grandfather of Judge Erwin, was born,
in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and his father was Colonel
Artlrar Erwin, a native of county Antrim, Parish of Crom-
well, Ireland, born in 1726, of mixed Scotch and Irish ancestry.
He came to America in the pre-Revolutionary period and returned
to Ireland about 1765 to bring over his family. They landed at
Philadelphia in August, 1768. In 1789 he bought the township
of Erwin, in Steuben county, a tract of hill and valley land
comprising in all some twenty-three thousand and five hundred
acres, for which he paid fourteen hundred pounds. Captain
Samuel Erwin died at Painted Post November 10, 1836. His
son, Arthur H. Erwin, father of the immediate subject of this
notice, and Frances Maria McKeen, above mentioned, were mar-
ried in Erwin township February 21, 1828. The following facts
concerning their children will be found of interest in this con-
nection. They had seven daughters and five sons. Mary, born
April 2, 1831, married Marcus Strom of Detroit, Michigan, and
died June 13, 1903. Eugene H. married Miss Elizabeth Cook
of Painted Post. He was born August 14, 1832 and died June
13, 1894. Emily, born June 27, 1834, died October 27, 1891.
Frances Virginia, born April 15, 1836, died April 13, 1909. Eliza-
beth, born July 15, 1838, married Dr. J. B. Dudley of Painted
Post and died October 27, 1905. DeWitt Clinton, born March
10, 1840, died December 11, 1873. Anna Maria, born May 2,
1842, married Charles Iredell of Painted Post and died June 17,
1898. Arthur H. was born May 10, 1844. Harriet L., born July
9, 1846, married John Lutman and is living at Painted Post.
Winfield Scott, born December 18, 1848, died October 30, 1905.
Helen, born June 14, 1851, died September 5, 1855. John J.,
born May 1, 1854, died August 30, 1855.

Of this family of children, notable for its number and more
notable for the ability which many of its individual members
displayed. Judge Erwin was the eighth in order of nativity. He
was educated in home schools at and near Painted Post and at
Alfred University. He had been brought up to farming, and to
farming he first gave attention after his graduation. He easily
took rank as a leader among the farmers of Erwin township, and
during thirteen years of his active life there conducted an agri-

532 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY

cultural warehouse at Addison, selling up to date machines and
implements of all kinds in demand among the farmers of that
section. He married, October 19, 1869, Miss Gertrude Brown,
daughter of Reuben P. and i\Iaria Brown of Addison, who died
December 28, 1889, leaving two children— Agnes M. and Frances
G. Agnes M., born July 23, 1870, is married and lives in New
York city. There also lives Frances G., and she too is married.
On August 15, 1899, Judge Erwin married Miss Mary tfay Bres-
sia of Ponca City, Oklahoma, who bore him a son, Arthur H.,
Jr., September 1, 1900.

Judge Erwin went west in April, 1888, and during the suc-
ceeding five years was in the shoe trade in. different cities. In
September, 1893, at the opening of the Cherokee outlet in Okla-
homa territory he located at Ponca City, where he was in the real
estate business until in 1896, when he was elected city judge of
the municipality mentioned. In the spring of 1898, when he
retired from that office, after a period of service creditable for
integrity no less than for efficiency, he returned to his real es-
tate office, branched out into larger operations than he had
handled before and has since continued the business, though living
a part of the time amid the scenes of his boyhood and earlier
active years. He takes a helpful interest in all local affairs and
has in many ways repeatedly demonstrated his public spirit.
There are those in the little old eastern town of Painted Post
whose name came down with it from the days of the Indians in
Southern New York who rejoice that Judge Erwin comes back
to them with western experience and western ideas to inculcate a
new standard of progressiveness. He is a popular ]\Iason, having
been made a member of the order as long ago as 1866. Politically
he is a Democrat.

Joseph G. McConnell.— Though not himself a native of Steu-
ben county Mr. McConnell, who is engaged in the furniture and
undertaking business in the thriving village of Prattsburg, is a
scion of old and honored families of this county, where both his
father and mother v;ere born. He is numbered among the pro-
gressive and public-spirited citizens of Prattsburg and he has
contributed in generous measure to its material and civic ad-
vancement. He is an influential citizen and one who has an im-
pregnable place in the confidence and esteem of the community.

Joseph G. McConnell was born in Italy township, Yates coun-
ty, New York, on the 18th of May, 1865, and is a son of Ira
A. and Rosanna J. (Bardeen) McConnell, both of whom were born
in Prattsburg township, Steuben county, where the respective fam-
ilies of stanch Scottish lineage were founded in an early day.
Ira A. McConnell was bom on the 14th of January, 1838, and
was a son of Alexander McConnell, who was likewise a native of
Prattsburg township, where he was born on the 2nd of August,
1817. Alexander McConnell was a son of William McConnell,
who was born in Pennsylvania and who was a son of Guyon Mc-

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Connell, a native of Scotland, whence he emigrated to America
and established his home in Pennsylvania in 1776. There he passed
the residue of his life, and his son William settled in Prattsburg
township, Steuben county. New York, in the pioneer days, here
securing a tract of wild land and reclaiming the same into a duly
productive farm. He and his wife here continued to reside until
they were summoned to the life eternal, and during the long inter-
vening years the family name has continued to be associated with
the great basic art of agriculture in this county, the while repre-
sentatives of the name have also achieved worthy success in other
lines of productive endeavor. Ira A. McConnell was born and
educated in Steuben county, and with his parents moved to Yates
county when he was five years of age. Upon reaching his majority
he secured land in Italy township and became a successful agri-
culturist and influential citizen. His course was so guided and
governed by strict principles of integrity and honor that he never
was denied the fullest measure of popular respect and confidence.
He was a Republican in his political proclivities and his religious
faith was that of the Baptist church, as was also that of his wife.
He died in 1884. Mrs. Rosanna J. (Bardeen) McConnell was born
in Prattsburg township on the 5th of April, 1844, and was a daugh-
ter of Moses and Hannah (Fisher) Bardeen, both of whom were
born and reared in the same township. Moses Bardeen was a son
of Calvin Bardeen, who likewise was a native of Prattsburg town-
ship and who was a son of Moses Bardeen, a patriot soldier of the
Continental line in the war of the Revolution. From the brief
data here incorporated it will be seen that both the McConnell and
Bardeen families were founded in Steuben county in the pioneer
epoch of its history, and both names have been conspicuously iden-
tified with the development and upbuilding of this favored sec-
tion of the old Empire state. Mrs. McConnell died in Italy, Yates
county. New York, June 11, 1872.

Joseph G. McConnell, whose names initiates this review, was
reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm in Yates county,
and after availing himself of the advantages of the district schools
he entered the high school at Naples, that county, where he com-
pleted the prescribed curriculum. Thereafter he continued his
higher studies at Hillsdale College, in the city of Hillsdale, Mich-
igan, where he remained a student for three years and where he
admirably fortified himself for successful work in the pedagogic
profession, to which he devoted his attention for a period of fifteen
years, within which he was a popular and valued teacher in the
public schools of Yates and Wayne counties. He served five years
as principal of the Macedon Academy, Macedon, New York, which
was the last of his teaching, he having resigned that position.

In the year 1900 Mr. McConnell returned to the ancestral
home, Steuben county, and located in the village of Prattsburg,
where he purchased the old Foster furniture and undertaking
establishment on Mechanic street, one of the oldest places of busi-
ness of the town. He forthwith identified himself with local in-

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terests by engaging in the furniture and undertaking business, in
which he has since continued with unqualified success, having an
establishment of modern equipment and appointments and having
the best of facilities for the handling of the department of his
enterprise devoted to undertaking and funeral directing. As a
progressive business man and loyal and public-spirited citizen he
is well upholding the high prestige ever attached to the name in
Steuben county. In 1906 Mr. McConnell established a branch
store in the village of Pulteney, this country, and this also con-
trols a large and representative patronage in the territory norraallj'
tributary to the village. He is also owner of the Prattsburg
Marble Works, representing one of the successful industrial en-
terprises of the county, and is a stockholder and director of the
Prattsburg State Bank. In politics Mr. McConnell is a stalwart
adherent of the Republican party and he has ever shown a deep
and broad-minded interest in public affairs, especially those of a
local order. He is affiliated with Prattsburg Lodge No. 583, F.
& A. M., of which he is past master; with Prattsburg Lodge No.
598. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with Prattsburg
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. Both he and his wife are iden-
tified with the work of the Presbyterian church. Their home in
Prattsburg is a center of cordial and refined hospitality and they
also have an attractive summer cottage on the shores of Keuka
Lake.

On the 20th of November, 1889, was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. McConnell to Miss Jennie Squier, who was born in Italy
township, Yates county, New York, on the 9th of April, 1867, and
who is a daughter of Ezra Squier, a representative citizen of that
county. Mrs. McConnell was afforded the advantages of the pub-
lic schools of her native county and for several years prior to her
marriage she had been a successful and popular teacher. Mr. and
Mrs. McConnell have two children, Lyle E., who was born on the
27th of December, 1891, is now taking a course in electrical en-
gineering in Bliss Electrical School, Washington, D. C. Mary E.,
who was born on the 5th of April, 1897, is attending the high
Kcliool of her native town.

George I. True.— "Civilization will hail riches, prowess, hon-
ors, popularity, but it will bow humbly to sincerity in its fellows.
The exponent of known sincerity, of singleness of honest purpose,
has its exemplification in all bodies of men; he is found in every
association and to him defer its highest officers. Such an exemplar,
Avhose daily life and whose life work have been dominated, as
their most conspicuous characteristic, by sincerity, is George Ivers
True, of Addison, New York." These complimentary phrases are
quoted from an article in the American Luinberman, dated July
21, 1906, and from it we glean the following interesting facts in
Mr. True's useful career.

Mr. True reflects the sturdiness of New England ancestry.
Henry True, an immigrant, seeking spiritual freedom in the New

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World, eaiiie to the Massachusetts colony in 1659, and was the
founder of the American branch of the family of which George I.
True and Charks H. True of Galveston, Texas, are the only living
male representatives of their line. George Ivers True is the only
son of Jairus and Jane (Kimball) True and was born at Owego,
Tioga county, New York, on the 12th of June, 1847. He had
one sister, Anna J., whose birth occurred on the 23d of March,
1846, and who was summoned to the life eternal October 15, 1867.
Jairus True, father of him whose name initiates this review, died
when George I. was a child of five years and subsequently his
mother married Philander C. Daniels, and as his wife continued to
live at Owego. Y^oung True began his education in the common
schools at Owego and later was a student at Owego Academy till
April, 1863, at which time Mr. and Mrs. Daniels moved to Addison,
where he pursued a course of study in a select school until circum-
stances made it necessary for him to find some employment.
Thomas Paxton, a prominent man in Addison, at that time gave
him work, paying him fifty cents a day, later twenty dollars a
month, and in 1868 admitted him to partnership in the firm of
Paxton & True, a general merchandise establishment which did
business under that name for a quarter of a century. Meantime,
out of his meager earnings Mr. True helped to pay for a home
in which his mother and step-father lived until they were more
than eighty years of age and in which they died.

On January 1, 1893, the firm of Park, Winton & True suc-
ceeded the firm of Park & Winton in operating a pioneer factory at
Addison, which had been established in 1855 and of which Mr.
Park became a member about 1885. This was the beginning of Mr.
True 's connection with the manufacturing of sash, doors and blinds.
The combination of ability thus made had all the requisites of
success. From the outset Mr. True had charge of the office and
of the finances. Mr. Park was lumber buyer and superintendent
of manufacture, and Mr. Winton had charge of the sales depart-
ment. In 1898 ]\Ir. Winton disposed of a portion of his interest
in the business to his brother, Maynard Winton, the remainder
being taken by Messrs. True and Park. In May, 1900, Mr. Park
was obliged to give up active business on account of ill health and
on February 28, 1901, he died. At this time Mr. Winton, the
former partner, again assumed an interest in the concern and he
continued as a member of the firm until his death, which occurred
February 8, 1906. During the periods of illness of his partners,
which had lasted more than a year in each instance, Mr. True
shouldered their labors in the business and carried it on success-
fully. William R. and Charles F. Park, sons of the late James H.
Park, are now actively associated with Mr. True in the conduct
of the business. The Park, Winton & True Company was incor-
porated under the laws of the state in 1910 with an official corps as
follows : George I. True, president and treasurer ; Charles F. Park,
vice-president and purchasing agent; and William R. Park, secre-
tary and assistant treasurer. The officers, together with James G.

538 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

Casson and D. N. Winton are the directors. The company is widely
known for its fair and honorable business methods and it may be
said that the sterling integrity of its officers constitute one of its
best assets.

Aside from the manufacturing business Mr. True has other
lumber interests of broad scope and importance. He is a stock-
holder in the Painted Post Lumber Company, of Painted Post,
New York; a stockholder in the Yadkin Lumber Company, of
Yadkin, North Carolina, \^hich owns fifty thousand acres of tim-
ber lands in the western part of the state ; and vice-president of the
Embreeville Timber Company, of Embreeville, Tennessee, which
holds title to thirty thousand acres of timber in eastern Tennessee.
He was one of the organizers and a director of the First National
Bank of Addison and for a number of terms he was incumbent of
the office of vice-president of the Veneered Door Manufacturer's
Association. He was one of the charter members of the Baldwin
Hook & Ladder Company, organized in 1876, and is now one of its
honorary members. His deep interest in educational affairs in the
town has caused him to be several times elected a member of the
local school board, on which he has served with great efficiency and
credit. Since 1888, when he was one of the foremost in the organi-
zation of the Addison branch of the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation, he has been a trustee, director and treasurer of that body.
As a member of the Presbyterian church he has contributed liber-
ally to its support and there are many at and near Addison who
can testify to his generosity in private charity. He is a mem-
ber of the City Club but spends most of his leisure time at home.
Having a fondness for a good horse, he delights in driving. In
1906, when he had been village treasurer of Addison for the long
period of twenty-two years, he declined re-election to the office
on account of the pressure of private business. In every sense
he has shown a loyalty and public-spirit beyond that manifested by
the average man of affairs. His townsmen know how much he has
done to advance the interests of his community and they proudly
recognize in him a leading business spirit and a citizen of the
highest type.

On the 19th of June, 1872, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. True to Miss Louise M. Turner, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John P. Turner, of Addison.. No children have been born of this
union but included within the charming home circle is iliss Jessica
K. Turner, a sister of Mrs. True. Mrs. True is a woman of most
gracious personality, is a member of the Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution and she has given much of her time and most
freely of her purse to charitable work of various kinds. \Mv. True
ha,s ever been, a most devoted brother to Mrs. C. C. Dawson, of
Toledo, Ohio, a daughter of his step-father, ilr. Daniels, by his
first marriage.

George IvCrs True has lived a life of usefulness such as few-
men know. God-fearing, law-abiding, progressive, his life is as
truly that of a Christian gentleman as any man's can well be.

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 539

Unwaveringly he has done the right as he has interpreted it. Pos-
sessed of an inflexible will, he is quietly persistent, always in com-
mand of his powers, never showing anger under any circum-
stances.

John F. Little.— Captain Little is one of the venerable and
honored members of the bar of Steuben county, is a veteran of
the Civil war and is still engaged in the active practice of his
profession at Bath. He commands a secure place in the confidence
and esteem of the community that has so long represented his
home and is a native of Steuben county as originally constituted,
though the town of Reading, in which he was born on the 30th of
July, 1839, is now in Schuyler county. He is a son of William
and Letitia (Shannon) Little, both of whom passed the closing
years of their lives in Bath. The father was born in Ireland,
whence he came to America when a young man and he located
in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and for years was engaged in
mercantile pursuits. . He later moved to Steuben county, where
he engaged in agricultural pursuits during the residue of his long
and useful life, though for some time he maintained his home in
the village of Bath.

Captain John F. Little was not yet two years of age when his
parents moved to Bath, where he secured his early educational
training, which included a course in the historic old Haverling
Academy, in which he was graduated. Thereafter he began the
study of law under the able preceptorship of Hon. William B.
Ruggles and he continued his technical studies until he responded
to the call of higher duty and tendered his services -to the cause
of the LTnion, whose independence had been placed in jeopardy by
open rebellion. In August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Com-
pany F, One Hundred and Sixty-first New York Volunteer In-
fantry, as a first lieutenant, and he continued in active service until
several months after the surrender of General Lee, having re-
ceived his honorable' discharge in November, 1865, and having
been assigned to detached duty after the virtual close of the war.
He took part in the battles of Port Hudson and Sabine Pass,
participated in the Red River campaign, Cox's Plantation, Fesche
campaign, in the building of the famous dams that saved the fleets
at Alexandria, Louisiana, and in the capture of Mobile, and he
made an admirable record as a faithful and valiant soldier of the
Republic. In 1863 he was commissioned captain and later he re-
ceived the brevet rank of major.

After the close of his military service Captain Little returned to
Bath and resumed the study of law. He was admitted to the bar
in 1866 and forthwith established himself in the practice of his
profession at Bath. In 1867 he was elected to represent his county
in the lower house of the state legislature, in which he served one
term. In 1887 Captain Little was appointed surrogate of Steuben
county, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Guy H.
McMaster, and he continued on the bench until the close of the

540 HISTORY OF STEUBEIST COUNTY

unexpired term. For five years he served as a member of the
county board of supervisors and in 1878 he was one of the
original trustees appointed by the state to establish and complete
the Soldiers' Home at Bath. He was reappointed to this posi-
tion in 1885 and continued incumbent of the same until 1897 ; he
was secretary of the board of trustees during practically this entire
period. Captain Little has long held prestige as one of the able
and resourceful members of the bar of Steuben county and here
he has been identified with a large amount of important litiga-
tion. He has at all times retained a representative clientele and
his professional course has been marked by deep appreciation of
the dignity and responsibility of his chosen vocation so that he
has held the confidence and high regard of his professional con-
freres.

In politics Captain Little is a staunch adherent of the Demo-
cratic party and he is an able exponent of its principles. He
has been prominent in its councils in his native state and was a
delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1904, when
Judge Alton B. Parker was nominated for the presidency. He
is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and while not
formally united with any religious organization he attends and
is a liberal supporter of the St. Thomas church, Protestant Episco-
pal, of whose vestry he is a valued member and of which his
wife is a zealous communicant.

In the year 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Captain
Little to Miss Emily Theodora Howard, youngest daughter of the
Rev. Oran R. Howard, S. T. D., who was rector of St. Thomas
church, Protestant Episcopal, in Bath, from 1857 to 1882, and
whose memory is revered in the community in which he so long
labored with all of consecrated zeal and devotion. The maiden
name of his wife was Emily Millington and she survived him by
a number of years.

Peter H. Zimmerman. — On the roster of the public officials
of Wayland is accorded the name of Peter H. Zimmerman, the
city's present postmaster. Perhaps no man in the city or county
is more widely known, and his splendid personality has enabled
him to fill with distinction the many public positions to which
he has been called. He was born, reared and educated in Way-
land township, born May 13, 1857, and under the tuition of his
father, Nicholas Zimmerman, a learned man and a graduate of
Trevis University, Germany, gained the knowledge which fitted
him for life's usefulness. Both Nicholas Zimmerman and his
wife, nee Anna Hoffman, were from Germany, their emigration
occurring respectively in 1848 and in 1851, and settling in Steu-
ben county, New York, they were here married in 1854. Nicholas
Zimmerman was the first merchant in Perkinsville, where he suc-
ceeded in business, but he was an educator, brilliant and accom-
plished to a high degree, and in his own native land he served

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as a professor in a high institution of learning. In 1858 he moved
to Corning, but soon returned to Steuben county, where he died in
1895, and where for twenty-three years he had served as a magis-
trate, filling the office with honor and dignity up to the time of his
death. His widow survives him, and of their four children, three
grew to mature years and two are yet living, C. M. Zimmerman,
whose home is in Buffalo, and Peter H.

The last named entered upon his business life as a clerk to
the agent for the Illinois Central Railroad Company at Carbon-
dale, Illinois, this being in 1872, and in 1879 he entered the office
of Capron and Fowler, at that time the most extensive produce
dealers in Steuben county. In 1880 he was made the census
enumerator, four years later was elected the village treasurer for
one year, was village clerk from 1881 until 1884, and from 1888 to
the present time he has served as the secretary of the Wayland
Dime Savings and Loan Association. At the age of twenty-one
he was appointed a notary public, and he has held that office
continuously since, from 1898 to the present time has been a mem-
ber of the board of education, and he is the president of the Board
of Trade. In 1901 Mr. Zimmerman became a stockholder and the
president of the board of directors of the Wayland Canning
Factory, and he continued at the head of that institution until
his resignation in 1905. From 1894 until the abolishment of the
office he was a justice of the sessions, from 1884 to 1900 was a
justice of the peace, and in February of 1900 he was appointed the
postmaster of Wayland and is the present incumbent of the of-
fice. He was appointed a special agent of mortgage and indebted-
ness for Steuben, Yates and Ontario counties, which comprised
the Twenty-ninth Congressional district for the eleventh Federal
census. He has proved a valuable factor in the public councils of
Wayland and of Steuben county, and as one of the representative
men of this community consideration is due Peter H. Zimmer-
man in this compilation. He is a member of the Knights of
Columbus, the Maccabees, the Woodmen of the World and the
C. M. B. A.

On the 25th of September, 1883, he was happily married to
Miss Amelia, a daughter of Philip and Catherine Conrad, and
the following children have graced their marriage union: Victor
B., the deputy postmaster at Wayland; Emanuel M., in the em-
ploy of the Standard Oil Company in Buffalo; Magdalene M.,
Beatrice H., Harold J., Peter H., Wilhelmina H., Marion E. and
Bernetta J.

Chables a. Kinney.— Noteworthy among the rising young
business men of Steuben county is Charles A. Kinney, a skilful
mechanic, now actively engaged in plumbing at Bath. A native of
this city, he was born April 5, 1884, a son of James Kinney, whose
birth occurred in this city fifty years ago. James Kinney married
Margaret Kahal, who was born in Thurston township, Steuben

5i-i HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUN-TY

county, in 1862. They reared four children, namely: Charles A.,
the special subject of this brief biographical sketch; James, an elec-
trician in Rochester, New York; John, of Bath, a printer; and
Helena, a clerk in Rochester, New York.

Having acquired a practical education in the public schools,
Charles A. Kinney enlisted for a term of three years in Company
P, Twenty-second* Regular Infantry, and at the expiration of his
term of enlistment re-enlisted for three years, joining Company I,
Twenty-third Regular Infantry, being stationed a part of the time
at Fort Crook, Nebraska, while during the Spanish-American war
he served under General Wood for two years in the Philippine
Islands. On returning to this country he was, with his regiment,
on guard duty at the Jamestown Exposition, from there going to
Oswego, New York, where he was honorably discharged from the
service. Since that time Mr. Kinney has followed the trade of a
plumber in Bath, in the meantime living at the old home and
caring for his widowed mother.

^Ir. Kinney is a valued member of Saint Mary's church. He is
not actively interested in politics, voting for the best men and
measures regardless of party interests. He is now serving his second
term as president of Hose Company No. 2, of Bath.

Harvey P. Jack, M. D.— A distinguished representative of the
medical profession in Steuben county is Dr. Jack, who has attained
marked precedence in the domain of surgery and gynecology and
who has given most effective service along educational lines in his
profession through various contributions to medical and surgical
literature of standard periodical order. He is engaged in practice
as a specialist at Canisteo, Steuben county, and is a representative
of one of the old and honored families of this county. Dr. Harvey
P. Jack was born at Thurston, Steuben county, on the 1st of De-
cember, 1865, and is a son of Allan T. and Loranah (Lane) Jack,
the former of whom was born in Steuben county, in March, 1831,
and the latter of whom was born in New Jersey in June of the
same year. Their marriage was solemnized in 1862. Allan T. Jack
early became identified with railroad interests, in connection with
which his first wort was on the Erie Railroad. About 1862 he be-
came a conductor on the Illinois Central Railroad and he continued
to be thus engaged until 1866, when he returned to Steuben county
and purchased a farm on the southeast corner of Cameron town-
ship, on Tracy creek. He became the owner of one hundred acres
of valuable land and developed one of the fine farms of the county.
He continued to give his attention to the supervision of his farm
until 1898, and he is now living retired in the city of Buffalo.
His devoted and cherished wife was summoned to the life eternal
in 1907, and she is survived by three sons and one daughter.

Dr. Harvey P. Jack gained his preliminary educational disci-
pline in a select school at Hedgesville, Steuben county, and this
school was presided over by Emily Hubbard, who had been a friend

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 545

and classmate of his mother at the female college at Blmira, this
state, and another classmate later became the wife of Samuel L.
Clemens (Mark Twain). Later the Doctor continued his studies
in historic old Haverling Academy, at Bath, Steuben county, in
which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1885. That
he made excellent use of the advantages afforded him is evident
when it is stated that when but nineteen years of age he became
principal of Woodhull Academy, Woodhull, New York, an incum-
bency which he retained one year, within which he raised the stand-
ard of the school to a much higher grade, obtaining the first cer-
tificate of intermediate grade for the institution. Upon retiring
from this position he became principal of the Howard Flats Acad-
emy, Howard, New York, which is now a union school, where he
remained one year. . He also served as principal of two district
schools in his native county and he made an excellent record
in connection with his pedagogic career. After leaving the Howard
Flats Academy the Doctor entered the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, in the city of Baltimore, and in this splendid institution
he was graduated oni the 1st of April, 1891, duly receiving his well
earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. Prior to this he had devoted
six months to the reading of medicine under the able preceptor-
ship of Dr. M. B. Hubbs, of Addison, Steuben county. In 1899
and 1900 he took two post-graduate courses at Johns Hopkins
Hospital, under Dr. Howard A. Kelly.

After his graduation Dr. Jack initiated the active practice of
his profession at Rathbone, New York, where he laid the founda-
tion for the distinctive precedence which he has since gained in his
chosen vocation. He has been an especially close and appreciative
student of the profession and has had recourse to the best of its
standards and periodical literature. On the 17th of January, 1893,
he located at Canisteo, where he has since continued in practice and
where he now confines his labors to office practice, surgery and
consultation, the while he makes a specialty of gynecology. His
reputation has gained him a clientage that far transcends local
limitations and as a surgeon his success has been of the most pro-
nounced order, as is also his work in plastic surgery. He is the
inventor of several useful instruments that have met with signal
favor on the part of leading surgeons throughout the United States
and one of these is the Jack Suture-Thimble, which is a great aid
to surgeons in sewing up orifices and which is used in the same
manner as an ordinary thimble. He has also invented the Jack
Hysterectomy Needle, which likewise is widely used. His indi-
vidual methods of teaching surgery are now being taught in the
principal medical colleges and have gained him high commendation
on the part of his professional confreres. He has succeeded in
greatly simplifying operations for hernia and his work along this
line serves as a model for many of the leading surgeons of the
country, besides which it has been adopted by representative sur-
geons in Europe. His contributions to medical literature have
been wide and varied and have attracted much appreciative atten-

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tion on the part of leading members of the medical fraternity.
Especially is this true in connection with his recommendation con-
tained in a paper published in 1908 and entitled "Preparation
of the Surgeon." This paper appeared in the Interimtional Journal
of Surgery and it is worthy of special note that his suggestions in
this connection are now being adopted in Japan. The Doctor has
had a large amount of correspondence with eminent Japanese sur-
geons and they are zealously working out a method of manual
training for surgeons— a discipline that is now considered an abso-
lute necessity. Dr. Jack also devised a new and simple method of
burial of the appendix stump and his paper entitled "Shall We
Bury the Stump of the Appendix ? ' ' was published in the Journal
of the American Medical Association of March 13, 1909, being
copyrighted by the association. His method* of performing this
part of the operation is original and is now being utilized by
leading surgeons. Other noteworthy papers contributed by Dr.
Jack are entitled "Puerperal Septicemia" and "Hernia as a Dis-
ability, with a New Procedure for Disposing of the Sac, and the
Use of Cocaine Anesthesia for Operations. ' ' Dr. Jack is consulting
surgeon to the St. James Mercy Hospital at Hornell, Steuben
county and the Steuben County Medical Society, and has served as
president of the Hornell Medical & Surgical Association. He has
also been president of the New York State Railway Surgeons ' Asso-
ciation and is identified with the New York and New England Rail-
road Surgeons' Association, besides which he is an active and val-
ued member of the American Medical Association and the New
York State Medical Society. He has served for ten years as a mem-
ber of the board of the United States pension examiners for Steu-
ben county.

He is a stanch Republican in his political allegiance, is affil-
iated with the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the
Knights Templars' degree, and is also identified with the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks. His wife holds membership
in the Presbyterian church.

On the 21st of February, 1891, was solemnized the marriage
of Dr. Jack to Miss Drusilla St. Clair, a daughter of Samuel St.
Clair, a representative citizen of Port Deposit, Maryland. Dr.
and Mrs. Jack have one daughter, Loranah S., who was born on
the 20th of December, 1891, and who is now a student in the
Emma Willard Seminary at Troy, New York.

John E. Jacobs.— Numbered among the progressive citizens
of Steuben county is Mr. Jacobs, who resides in the village of
Wayland, where he controls a prosperous enterprise in the team-
ing and express business, for which he has an adequate equip-
ment and in connection with which he has a representative sup-
porting patronage, showing that he is reliable and upright in his
business dealings and well entitled to the confidence so uniformly
reposed in him in the community.

John Brhart Jacobs was born on the old homestead farm of

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his father, in Springwater township, Livingston county. New
York, on the 24th of October, 1858, and is a son of Blias and Mary
Catherine (Beek) Jacobs, the former of whom died on the 28th of
April, 1893, at the age of sixty-five years, and the latter was sum-
moned to eternal rest on the 16th of November, 1904, at the
age of seventy-one years. Elias Jacobs was born in Pennsylvania
and was ten years of age at the time when his parents removed
from the old Keystone commonwealth to Livingston county. New
York, where his father secured a tract of land and engaged in
agricultural pursuits, to which he devoted the residue of his life.
Elias Jacobs was reared to maturity under the sturdy discipline of
the farm and his educational advantages were limited to the
common schools of the locality and period. In his youth he
learned the carpenter's trade and he found his services in requisi-
tion in connection with building operations in this section of the
state, even after he had made farming his vocation. He continued
to be identified with agricultural pursuits until his death, and
with the passing years a due measure of prosperity attended his
earnest and arduous labors. His wife was a daughter of Valentine
and Margaretta Beek, who immigrated from Germany to America
and established their home on a farm near Dansville, Livingston
county. New York, where they passed the remainder of their lives.
Of the children of Elias and Mary Catherine (Beek) Jacobs five
sons are living,— William, who resides at Trout Run, Pennsyl-
vania; Valentine, who is a successful farmer of Livingston
county. New York; Edward, who is a resident of the village of
Wayland; Alonzo A., who is individually mentioned on other
pages of this volume; and John E., who is the immediate subject
of this review. The mother was a devout member of the Lutheran
church.

John E. Jacobs was reared on the home farm and is indebted
to the public schools for his early educational training. At the
age of eighteen years he found employment at farm work, and
he continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits for many
years, eventually becoming the owner of a well improved farm,
a property which he still retains. In 1900 Mr. Jacobs took up
his residence in the village of "Wayland, where he has since been
successfully engaged in the teaming and express business. He is
loyal and public-spirited as a citizen but has never desired of-
ficial preferment, the while he maintains an independent attitude
in politics, giving his support to the men and measures meeting the
approval of his judgment. He is affiliated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Ma,ceabees, and
both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal
church in their home village.

On the 3d of January, 1897, Mr. Jacobs. was united in mar-
riage to Miss Eda Hecox, who was born and reared in Howard
township, this county, and the date of whose nativity was Novem-
ber 4, 1864. She is a daughter of David and Laura C. (Dock-

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stetter) Heeox, both of whom were born in Otsego county, New
York. David Hecox was a child at the time of his parents' re-
moval to Steuben county and they settled in Howard township,
where the parents passed the rest of their lives. He himself be-
came one of the prosperous farmers of that township and was a
man who was never denied the fullest measure of popular esteem.
He died on the 26th of February, 1898, at the age of sixty years,
and his wife passed away on the 6th of March, 1897. She was a
daughter of Leonard and Catherine (Kincaid) Dockstetter, who
came from Otsego county to Steuben county in an early day. Of
the children of David and Laura C. Hecox three are living besides
Mrs. Jacobs,— David, who is a resident of the state of Nebraska;
Ella, who is the wife of Allen Reed, of Kanona, Steuben county;
and Ida, who is the wife of Horace Snell. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs
have two children, — Beulah C, who was born May 26, 1904, and
Dorr, who was born January 19, 1907.

Hon. Pbed A. Robbins.— This legal practitioner, attorney at
Hornell for the Erie road, was bom at Bainbridge, Chenango
county. New York, October 16, 1858. His father, of the same
name and a native of Granby, Massachusetts, died in his sixty-
sixth year. Asa Robbins, father of the latter and grandfather of
Fred A. Robbins of Hornell, was of an old New England family
of English extraction. Mr. Robbins' mother was Miss Catherine
Whittlesey, daughter of Zina "Whittlesey. Her father was born
in Saybrook, Connecticut, she, in Durham, Greene county. New
York. She died in her fifty-third year. Of the children tbat she
bore her husband four grew to maturity and of those four Fred
A. was the second in order of nativity.

The immediate subject of this sketch was educated in common
schools at Angelica, Allegany county. New York. He began the
study of law there and in 1880 was admitted to the bar at
Rochester. He began his practice at Belfast, Allegany county, but
remained there only about six months. Returning to Angelica, he
was in practice there from in 1881 until in 1898, when he located
at Hornell, and there he resumed his professional work. Since
January 1, 1904, he has been one of the local attorneys for the
Erie road.

While living in Allegany county Mr. Robbins was for five
years supervisor of Angelica township, and during the last three
years of the five he was chairman of the Allegany county board
of supervisors. From 1893 to 1897 he represented Allegany coun-
ty in the general assembly of the state of New York.

In 1887, Mr. Robbins married Miss Clara E". Kendall, of
Angelica, New York, and they have three sons,— Charles, Albert
and Edward Robbins.

William Manley Wagner.- One of the most prominent of
the industrial representatives of the little city of Savona is found

HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 551

iu the person of William M. Wagner, perhaps most prominently
known as a merchant. He was born in the city of Bath on the
28th of November, 1866, to Peter and Mary (Freeman) Wagner.
The mother, a daughter of Alexander and Hulda Freeman, died in
the year 1906, aged sixty-seven years, and she is survived by her
husband, who is living retired at Altoona, Pennsylvania. He
was born in Steuben county, New York, seventy-eight years ago,
and for many years he was both a farmer and lumberman in Bath.

William M. Wagner, the only surviving child in his parents'
family, on leaving school at the age of sixteen spent three years as
a clerk in the oflSce of the superintendent of the Erie Railroad
Company at Hornell, New York, was then for a similar period em-
ployed in the capacity of a brakeman, and returning at the close
of that period to Savona he embarked in the general mercantile
business as a member of the firm of Wagner and Stevenson. This
association continued until 1892, and since then Mr. Wagner has
been alone in the business. He carries the largest stock of goods
to be found in any store of its kind in this community, and his
goods are also well selected. Iu addition he is associated with the
insurance business, representing as a general agent the Baron
Steuben Fire Insurance Company, is a stockholder and the secre-
tary and treasurer of the Coleman Iron Works Company of Savona,
and is also a stockholder iu the Savona Milling Company and the
Savona Elgin Butter and Cheese Association. In politics he is,
allied with the Democratic party, and he was formerly president
of the Savona corporation, and has been its treasurer during the
past six years. During a period of three years he was the overseer
of the poor at Bath.

Mr. Wagner married in 1895 Miss Anna M. Van Housen, and
two daughters have graced their union, Julia and Cora.

Clarence Willis.— No citizen of Steuben county has shown
more vital interest in its history than Clarence Willis, of Bath, who
is a member of one of the sterling pioneer families of this section
of the state and who is a representative member of the bar of his
native county. He has been called upon to serve in various offices
of public trust and is a citizen who is held in implicit confidence
and esteem in the community.

Clarence Willis was born in Howard township, Steuben county,
on the 31st of July, 1852, and is a son of William H. and Nancy
(Whiting) Willis, both of whom were likewise natives of Steuben
county, the father having been born in Bath township, on the 30th
of ilay, 1832, and the mother iu Howard township, on the 30th
of November, 1827. The marriage of the parents was solemnized
on the 25th of September, 1851, and they immediately established
their home on the farm of ]Mrs. Willis' father, the old Whiting
homestead, and this has been maintained as the homestead of the
Willis family since that time. There William Hern Willis still
maintains his home and there his cherished and devoted wife died
on the 20th of September, 1894. Mr. Willis remodeled the house

553 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

on the farm which is now his home and has made other improve-
ments of the best order. He is one of the substantial and hon-
ored citizens of the county, and though now venerable in years,
he still gives a general supervision to the work and management
of his fine farm. The Whiting family is of English extraction
and was founded in Massachusetts in 1636. Colonel John Whit-
ing, grandfather of Mrs. Nancy (Whiting) Willis, removed from
Massachusetts to Maine, whence he came to Steuben county, New
York, in 1814, settling near the old stone quarry south of the
village of Bath, and in the township of the same name. He
afterward removed to the village, where he continued to reside
until his death, which occurred in 1853. Of his fourteen children,
twelve attained to years of maturity and his son, John W. Whit-
ing, father of Mrs. Willis, became one of the representative
farmers of Howard township, where he continued to reside during
the major portion of his life and where he died on the 15th of
June, i871. Colonel John Whiting was a man of prominence
and influence in the community in the pioneer days and was es-
sentially progressive in his attitude, doing all in his power to
further the civic and material upbuilding of the county. He was
prominently identified with the construction of the Lake Erie
turnpike and it may be noted that in 1818 he contracted to plow
and scrape twenty-two miles of this highway and to build the
needed aqueducts and bridges. For this work he received $3,076.56.
The construction of the road was initiated in 1809.

William Willis, paternal great-grandfather of him whose name
initiates this review, was born in the year 1779 and was likewise
a representative of one of the Colonial families of New England.
In 1820 he came with his family to Steuben county and secured
a tract of land in the western part of Bath township, a locality
which was later known as Willis Hill. There he died in 1824. His
children were nine in number and of these Harry Willis, grand-
father of the subject of this review, continued to reside on a part
of the old homestead farm, where he remained until his death. On
this ancestral farm William Hern Willis was born and reared.
He has been for many years a zealous member of the Methodist
Episcopal church and his wife was a Presbyterian in her religious
faith. He has always given his support to the principles and pol-
icies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor- and he has
been called upon to serve in various offices of public trust, in-
cluding those of township supervisor and assessor. His election
to these offices indicates his personal popularity in the township
which has for many years given a large Republican majority.
William H. and Nancy (Whiting) Willis became the parents
of four children, of whom Clarence is the eldest. Sarah AV is
the wife of Albert T. Abbey, of Watkins, Schuyler county; John
W. remains on the old homestead with his father and has the gen-
eral management of the place; Angeline is the wife of Andrew
J.' McKibben and they reside near the old homestead in Howard
township. W^illiam H. Willis was at one time the candidate of his

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 553

party for the ofSce of state senator and he has been for a good
many years influential in the public affairs of his township. Con-
cerning the Whiting family it should be noted that the subject
of this sketch is a direct descendant in the sixth generation from
Timothy Whiting, who was a valiant soldier in the Continental
line in the war of the Revolution, in which he participated in the
battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill.

Clarence Willis passed his boyhood and youth on the home farm
and his rudimentary education was secured in the district schools,
after which he continued his studies under the direction of a
private tutor. Rev. Peter C. Robertson, a graduate of Union Col-
lege. Under the preceptorship of Mr. Robertson Mr. Willis began
the study of Latin and he later became efficient in this classical
language. 'He finally entered Haverling Academy, at Bath, in
which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of
1871. Thereafter he was engaged in teaching in the public schools
of his native county during the winter terms for five years and
in the meanwhile, in 1873, he began the study of law in the of-
fice of Ruggles & Little, of Bath, besides which he continued his
technical studies under Charles P. Kingsley. His health became
impaired and under these conditions he returned to the home farm,
where he -remained for two years, at the expiration of which he
resumed his law studies and on June 14, 1878, at the General
term of the Superior court, in the City of Buffalo, he was ad-
mitted to the bar. He immediately initiated the practice of his
profession at Bath and on the 1st of January, 1883, he was ap-
pointed sheriff's clerk, a position of which he continued incumbent
under two administrations. In 1889 he was elected village clerk of
Bath and in 1890 he was elected police justice, a position which he
retained for six years. In 1891 he was also elected justice of the
peace of Bath township and this incumbency he retained four
years. In 1906 he was Democratic candidate for the office of
county judge and though he received a very flattering endorse-
ment at the polls he was unable to overcome the normal Republican
majority. On the 1st of March, 1907, he was appointed transfer
tax attorney for Steuben county by the state comptroller and in
this position he served until January 9, 1909. He has also served
as village assessor and as a member of the board of health of
Bath. He became a member of the local board of education in
1888 and has continuously served in this capacity except for an
interim of three years, and is now the president of the board.
Mr. Willis has taken a specially active interest in educational
affairs and also in political manoeuvers in his home county. In
the autumn of 1909 he was made the nominee of his party for
member of assembly of the First district of Steuben county in the
state legislature. He made a splendid campaign and was de-
feated by only one hundred and forty-two votes in a district that
gives a normal Republican majority of sixteen hundred. He car-
ried the town of Bath by three hundred and ninety-six plurality
and his home precinct by one hundred and forty. He was the

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candidate of the Democratic party for the state senate in 1910, in
the forty-third senatorial district, comprising Steuben and Living-
ston counties, a district that gave Taft a majority of over seven
thousand, and he. was defeated by the meager majority of two
hundred and sixty-seven votes. He carried every election district
in his own town and his county by three hundred and twenty votes,
the first Democrat to receive a plurality in Steuben county in
twenty-five years. He was secretary of the Democratic county
committee from 1881 to 1884, inclusive, and in 1909 he served as
chairman of the Democratic committee of the First assembly dis-
trict of Steuben county.

Mr. Willis has maintained his law office in the Dean Block for
twenty years and his business is largely that of the settlement of
estates. Concerning him the following statements are substantially
those that appeared in the Elmira-Star Gazette: "He is known
as a careful counselor and a man thoroughly read in his profes-
sion. Mr. Willis is a gentleman of great and diversified ability and
is authority on all matters pertaining to the local history of Steu-
ben county. He has given numerous addresses at various meet-
ings and before various bodies on historical subjects and these
papers are valuable additions to the historical literature of Steu-
ben county. In a business way he has always been a careful man-
ager. Since he became secretary of the Nondaga Cemetery Asso-
ciation at Bath, in 1898, when he found the organization hope-
lessly in debt, he has placed its afllairs in a fine financial condi-
tion and has made the cemetery one of the beauty spots of the
town. When transfer tax attorney his businesslike management
was praised by all, including the state comptroller. While police
justice his papers were never reviewed by any court and only
two appeals were taken from his decisions, in both of which he
was affirmed. Mr. Willis has been the architect of his own fortune
and has worked his way up from the original vocation of farm-
ing. He can still pitch hay, and enjoys the acquaintance of hun-
dreds of the farmers of Steuben county, who respect him thor-
oughly as a man and a citizen. He is a typical American, is a
first class business man and an official who has always been true
to his trusts."

Mr. Willis is a most zealous communicant of the Episcopal
church and has been a member of St. Thomas church at Bath since
1873. He was elected a member of the vestry of this parish in
1889 and he is now senior warden of the church. He is a mem-,
ber of Kohoeton Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and
has served both as district deputy grand master and as district
deputy grand patriarch of this organization, which he has rep-
resented in both the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment of
the state. In 1905 he received from Hobart College the honorary
degree of Bachelor of Arts and 1910 he received the honorary
degree of Master of Litigation from Alfred University.

On the 23d of April, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Willis to Miss Mary Alice Billington, who was born March
25, 1849, in Bath township and there reared, a daughter of Jacob
and Abigail (Hewlett) Billington, well known residents of the county.

HISTORY OP STEUBEX COUNTY 555

Fred E. Bartholomew.— Among the representative citizens
of Steuben county, New York, is Fred Eugene Bartholomew, who is
actively engaged in farming and the dairy business in Wayland
township and who has ever manifested a deep and sincere interest
in all matters tending to advance the general welfare of this
section of the grand old Empire state. He was born in Naples
township, this county, on the 20th of October, 1876, and is a
son of Henry Eugene Bartholomew, who was likewise born in
Naples township, the date of his birth being February 3d, 1852.
The paternal grandfather of the subject of this review was Henry
Bartholomew, who resided in Pennsylvania for a time, coming
thence to Naples township, Steuben county, New York. He and a
brother who accompanied him were identified with the dairy busi-
ness and general farming throughout their lives. Henry Bartholo-
mew was a carriage-maker by trade and he married Minna Rodley,
who was born in Connecticut. He was summoned to eternal rest
in 1895, at the age of seventy-five years, and she passed away in
1893, at the age of sixty-eight years. Allen Bartholomew, father
of Henry, was a native of Connecticut, whence he came to Naples
township, where he took up farming and where he died in 1853,
at the age of eighty years. The maiden name of his wife was
Zenith Bryee. The great-great-grandfather of Fred E. Bartholo-
mew, of this sketch, was Aaron Bartholomew, who lived to the
age of ninety-seven years; he was a farmer by vocation. The
mother of him whose name initiates this review was Miss Phoebe
Warring prior to her marriage. She was born on the old Warring
homestead in South Cohocton, New York, on the 4th of February,
1854, and is a daughter of John C. Warring, who was also born in
South Cohocton, where he died in 1887, at the age of fifty-seven
years. He married Martha- D. Hoag, who died in her seventy-fifth
year, in 1904. Martha D. Hoag was a daughter of Nathan and
Susan Hoag, of Buffalo, New York. The maternal great-grand-
father of Fred E. Bartholomew, Charles Warring, was a carpenter
and ship-builder by vocation and he was born and reared in
England, whence he came to the United States with his parents.
Settlement was made in Connecticut, where Charles W^arring
wedded Rhoda Glason. They came to New York with an ox-team
and wagon and located a colony at what is now known as Warring
Hill, where Charles took up a homestead of two hundred and
sixty acres of timber land, which he cleared, hauling the timber
to Cohocton and Bath, whence it was shipped down the Cohoc-
ton river. In those days all the clothing worn was homespun
and the schoolhouse was some two and a half miles distant.
John C. Warring, grandfather of Fred E. Bartholomew, served for
a time as a soldier in the Civil war. He enlisted in Company C,
New York Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into service at
Elmira, New York. He participated in many important campaigns
under General Grant and was present at the time of General Lee's
surrender.

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Mr and Mrs Henry Eugene Bartholomew became the parents
of two children, namely -Lottie, who is the wife of Philip Damoth
of Corning, New York; and Fred E., the immediate subject ot
this review. Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew are both living. Fred E,
received his educational training in the public schools of Steu-
ben county and he was associated with his father m the work and
management of the home farm until he had attained to the age ot
sixteen years, after which he farmed out until 1909, m which year
he engaged in the farming and dairy business on his own account.
He now owns a splendid estate in Naples township and m con-
nection with the milk business he utilizes twenty cows, operating
a fine milk and dairy depot. In politics he is aligned as a stal-
wart supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican
party and although he has never manifested aught of desire for
political preferment of any description he is alert and enthusiastic-
ally in sympathy with all measures advanced for the general good
of the community. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the
Modern "Woodmen of America.

Mr. Bartholomew married Miss Lieny Sidmore, who was born
in 1879. She was a daughter of B. Sidmore, a prominent farmer
near Hemlock, this county. Mrs. Bartholomew was summoned to
the life eternal in 1899. She was a woman of most gracious per-
sonality and was deeply beloved by all who came within the
sphere of her gentle influence.

Reuben E. Robie.— At this point it is permitted to enter brief
record concerning one of the honored and essentially representa-
tive members of the bar of Steuben county, with whose annals the
name has been identified for more than four score years. Mr.
Robie has been for a number of years engaged in the practice of
his profession at Bath and this place has represented his home
from the time of his birth, which here occurred on the 24th of Sep-
tember, 1843. He is a son of Hon. Reuben and Nancy (Whiting)
Robie, whose marriage was here solemnized on the 29th of April,
1824, in which year Reuben Robie had established his home at
Bath, whither he came from his native state of Vermont in 1822.
He became one of the prominent business men and influential citi-
zens of Steuben county and was a member of congress in 1851-2.
For more than half a century he was numbered among the lead-
ing merchants of Bath and here his death occurred in January,
1872. The lineage of the Robie family is traced back to John Robie,
of Castle Donnington, Leicestershire, England, who died in 1515,
and the original representative of the name in America was Henry
Robie, who landed at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1639, and went
thence to Exeter, New Hampshire, in which state he continued
to reside until his death, which occurred at Hampton. Mrs. Nancy
(Whiting) Robie, mother of him whose name initiates this review,
was a descendant of Rev. Samuel Whiting, of Lynn, Massachusetts,
who settled at Lynn in 1636, and she was a daughter of Colonel
John Whiting, who came from Maine to Bath, Steuben county.

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in 1815. Reuben and Nancy (Whiting) Robie became the parents
of twelve children, whose names are here entered in their respec-
tive order of birth,— Nancy Jane, Harriet Alvira, Lydia, Olive,
John Whiting, Jonathan, Charles Henry, James Whiting, Mary,
Reuben Edward, Joel Carter and James Lyon. Of the number
three sons and one daughter are now living.

Reuben E. Robie gained his early educational training in the
schools of his native town and in 1864 he was graduated from
Hobart College, in Geneva, this state. Thereafter he began read-
ing law under the able preceptorship of Hon. David Rumsey, of
Bath, and in 1866 was duly admitted to the bar. He initiated the
active work of his profession by entering into partnership with
his former preceptor and George S. Jones, under the firm name of
Rumsey, Jones & Robie. This alliance continued for two years
and for the succeeding two years Mr. Jones and Mr. Robie were
in partnership. Since that time Mr. Robie has continued his prac-
tice in an individual way and he has long controlled a large and
representative professional business, based upon his recognized
ability as an advocate and counselor and upon his sterling at-
tributes of character. He has served as a member of the board of
trustees of his native town and as loan commissioner of the state
of New York. He was long and prominently identified with the
National Guard, in which connection he served as adjutant, brigade
inspector and judge advocate. In politics Mr. Robie has ever ac-
corded a stanch allegiance to the Democratic party and he has been
an efficient exponent of its principles and policies. He is identi-
fied with various social organizations.

On the 2d of February, 1881, Mr. Robie was united in marriage
to Miss Anna Watkins Babcock, a daughter of the late Colonel
William Babcock, of. Canton, Illinois.

E. R. Hyde, Wayland's florist, has been a resident of Steuben
county for twenty-one years, but has maintained his residence in
Way] and only since 1904. He is a natural horticulturist and a
successful man in the vocation, and he has always been a lover of
flowers, but it was not until 1906 that he took up the business as
a special vocation. He owns his own property, and has twelve
hundred feet under glass, and will soon enlarge his plant in order
to supply the growing demands of his trade. He is at the present
time making a specialty of the raising of carnations and roses,
but he has a large trade in all cut flowers and potted plants.

Mr. Hyde claims Candice Corners in Livingston county, New
York, as the place of his nativity, and he was born in 1869 to
the marriage union of Frank L. and Lucretia (Mott) Hyde, whose
children consisted of but two and E. R. Hyde is the only one liv-
ing in Steuben county. He was educated at Hornell, this state,
and his first business experience was in a clerical capacity in the
dispatcher's office in the Erie Railroad shops at Hornell, but later
he went from there to Bufi'alo and followed clerical work there
until coming to Wayland in 1904. In 1899 he married Miss Nellie

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Algier, and a son, Stephen, was born to them in 1901. Mr. Hyde
is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Patehin Lodge of Wayland.

M. C. SwAKTHOUT.— The one agency which has done most for
public progress is the press, and M. C. Swarthout is a journalist of
well known ability, the editor of the Wayland Register. He has
been connected with journalistic work during the greater part of
his business life, and his power as a writer and editor is widely
acknowledged. He has edited the Wayland Kegister since the 17th
of November, 1904, and with the passing years he has made it
one of the leading journals of Steiiben county.

JMr. Swarthout has been identified with Wayland and its in-
terests since 1902, but he claims Ovid in Seneca county as the
place of his nativity, born on the 22d of September, 1882. His
parents, C. H. and Elizabeth (Critehell) Swarthout, were from
Seneca county, New York, and Adrian, Michigan, respectively.
The mother died June 6, 1907, and the father is now living in
Ovid, where he is held in the highest esteem. He has served in
many of the public offices of Seneca county, including six years as
its sheriff, ten years as a supervisor, ten years as the chairman of
the County Democratic Committee, and he is now the president of
the village of Ovid and is numbered among his county's rep-
resentative and influential citizens. M. C. Swarthout is the third
born of his parents' five children, and he was reared and educated
in his native village of Ovid and is a graduate of its high school.
Immediately after leaving school he became associated with the
printing business and in a comparatively short time has become
proficient as an editor. His job printing department is one of
the chief features of his business, and he is well equipped in every
line of his work. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of
America, and served his lodge as consul during the years 1906
and 1907.

On the 8th of January, 1905, Mr. Swarthout was happily mar-
ried to Miss Katheryn, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Gregg,
of Wayland, and a son, Maurice G., was born to them on the 1st
of January, 1906.

James Laurno.— The business houses of the city of Bath in-
clude among their number the fruit, candy and cigar store of
Vennto and Laurno, which was established in 1906, and which is
one of the leading houses of its kind in the city. James Laurno, of
that firm, was born in Alatri, Italy, April 17, 1876, a son of
Beato and Rose (Mirino) Laurno, who are living in the city of
Alatri, the father at the age of seventy-two and the mother at the
age of fifty-eight. There are two daughters of the family, Zeno-
phina, wife of Peter Wetat, who resides in Bath, and Theresina, at
home with her parents. James Laurno was a lad of thirteen when
he came to America, and during the following six years was em-
ployed in a glass factory at Corning, New York. Then return-

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ing to the country of his birth he spent another six years on the
home farm there, and coming once more to America in 1904 he
located in Bath, but later went again to Corning, and in 1906 he
returned to this city, and has since been engaged in the conduct
of his fruit, candy and cigar store. He is a member of the Catholic
church and of the order of United Workmen in Bath.

Mr. Laurno married a lady from his own native land, Rosa
Marino, who was born near his boyhood's home in Italy in 1877,
a daughter of Dominick IMarino, deceased, and of Rosa (Foggana)
Marino, his wife. Three daughters have been born to Mr. and
Mrs. Laurno, Olinda, eight years of age, Mathilda, six years old,
and Louisa.

William Cuffney. — The native-born citizens of Bath, Steu-
ben county, have no finer representative than William Cuffney,
bookkeeper at the Halloek Bank. He is a man of sterling integrity
and worth, public-spirited and enterprising, and, although one of
the younger generation, is already quite active in local affairs and
prominent and popular in social circles. A son of Dennis Cuffney,
he was born October 24, 1886, in this city.

Dennis Cuffney was born in 1858 in Bradford county, Penn-
sylvania, but has spent the larger part of his active life in Bath,
at the present time being fireman at the Soldiers' Home. He
married Mary B. Tigue, who was born, fifty-one years ago, in
Bath, New York, a daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Smith)
Tigue, who settled in this part of Steuben county at an early day.
Five children have been born of their union, namely; James, of
Sonyea, New York; William, the subject of this sketch; Edward,
a druggist in Bath; Margaret, a pupil in the Bath High School;
and Thomas, a school boy.

Having been graduated from the Union High School in Bath
in 1904 William Cuffney taught school for a year at AUegany, New
York, after which he continued his studies at Saint Bonaventure
College for a year. The following year he was employed as a
clerk, and in 1907 was offered the position of bookkeeper at the
Halloek Bank, and has since retained it, performing the duties
devolving upon him in this capacity most creditably and satis-
factorily. , , , n

Mr. Cuffney is a faithful member of Saint Mary's church, and
belongs to the Knights of Columbus. He is an earnest advocate of
the principles of the Democratic party, and in 1909 was elected
town clerk of Bath, being the second man elected to that position
on the Democratic ticket in a period of fifty-five years. He is
still free from domestic ties, making his home with his parents, in
the house where his birth occurred.

William Richardson, a man of affairs and president of the
Bank of Steuben, Hornell, was born in Almond, Allegany county.
New York April 10, 1836, a son of Thomas Richardson. His

560 HISTOKY OF STEUBfeN COUNTY

father was a shoemaker by trade, but became a manufacturer and a
shoe merchant. He was born in 1800 and died in July, 1869. His
wife who died when she was forty-four years old, was Helen M.
Brower, a native of the state of New York. She bore her husband
five son's and two daughters, all of whom except one grew to man-
hood and womanhood. The subject of this notice, the youngest of
the family, was reared on a farm and educated in schools near his
boyhood home. At eighteen he became a clerk in a store at Al-
mond. In 1856 he formed a partnership with his father in the
shoe business in that village. Four years later he bought his
father's interest in the enterprise and continued it individually,
meantime embarking in the tanning business at Andover, in the
same county. In 1873 he removed his business to Hornell, where
he conducted it successfully till 1907. Then he disposed of it in
order the better to give his attention to other interests.

In 1902 Mr. Richardson and seven other gentlemen organized
the Bank of Steuben and he became its president. Its twenty-
ninth quarterly report made to the banking superintendent in
November, 1909, showed its resources and liabilities as follows:
Assets— loans and discounts, $579,225.75 ; bonds owned, $65,249.07 ;
mortgages owned, $13,170.00 ; accrued interest, $2,000.00 ; cash on
hand and in banks, $160,362.00; liabilities— capital, $50,000.00;
surplus and profits, $98,923.55 ; deposits, $666,084.05 ; interest due,
$5,000.00. The official roster of this strong financial institution is
as follows: President, William Richardson; vice-president, L. W.
Rockwell; cashier, Charles W. Etz; assistant cashier, "William E.
Pittenger ; directors, William Richardson, J. E. Walker, J. L. Rock-
well, William E. Pittenger, W. G. Hollands, S. S. Karr, H. G.
Pierson, Charles W. Etz, L. W. Rockwell, S. B. Brown, C. E.
Shults, W. H. Greenhow, George Hollands, Don L. Sharp and J.
E. Schwarzenbach. Mr. Richardson owns considerable real es-
tate, including several farms. He has erected a number of prom-
inent buildings in Hornell, the first one thirty-seven years ago.

Mr. Richardson married Miss Elsie Hammond, of Allegany
county, New York. Their only child, Frances, is the wife of Dr.
Herman Biggs, of New York city. Without any real desire for
political activity, too busy to mix in political affairs even did he
wish to do so, Mr. Richardson while exercising much influence as
a private citizen has never given much attention to practical poli-
tics. It is as a business man that he has made his way in the
world, and as such he will impress the spirit of his personality on
the community with which he has been so long identified and to
which it is to be hoped he may long be spared.

Dr. John D. Mitchell was born at Cameron Mills, Steuben
county. New York, March 7, 1853, a son of Dr. Samuel Mitchell,
a native of Lisle, Bromme county. New York, who came to Steu-
ben county in his young manhood. John D. was the eldest son of
the family, and the oldest except one of the members of it who are

HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 5G3

living in 1910. He passed the years of his boyhood at Cameron
Mills and at sixteen went to Hornell to school. After a period of
study at Lima, he took up the study of medicine under his father 's
preceptorship. He was duly graduated from the Medical Depart-
ment of the University of New York in 1876. For twelve years
thereafter he practiced his profession with increasing success at
Savona, Steuben county. Then, coming to Hornell, he organized
the Hornell Sanitarium company, erected the sanitarium build-
ings and was for six years in charge of that institution as its
superintendent and resident physician and surgeon. He then
turned to the general practice of medicine and surgery as an in-
dependent practitioner, in which he has won signal eminence. He
is a member of the Steuben County Medical Society, is a member
and has been president of the Hornell Medical and Surgical Asso-
ciation, a member of the New York State Medical Society, and a
member of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Mitchell, while living at Savona, became a Mason. In
politics he is a stanch Republican. He is a member and a trustee
of the Methodist -Episcopal church. April 19, 1876, he married
Miss Artelissa Morris, daughter of Aaron Morris, a pioneer in
Steuben county who was early prominent in connection with the
Protestant Episcopal church, influentially helpful in connection
with the building of the first Episcopal church edifice at Hornell.
Mrs. Mitchell's mother was a daughter x)f Nathanial Finch, an
early settler at Hornell. Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell have eight children
as follows : William M., M. D., is a practicing physician at Brad-
ford, Pennsylvania; Samuel is a dentist; Carrie married Fred G.
Spink of Hornell; Hobart is studying for a medical and surgical
career at the University of Baltimore; Florence, Lovina, Clarence
and Ward are members of their parents' household. As a citizen.
Dr. Mitchell is public spirited and helpful to all worthy interests.

Judge Monroe Wheei^ee is not only known as one of the es-
sentially representative legists and jurists of his native county,
where he is now serving on the bench of the surrogate court, but
he is also a scion of one of the old and distinguished families of
Steuben county, where the family name is perpetuated in the
town of Wheeler, where he was bom on the 16th of August, 1849.
Judge Wheeler is a son of Grattan H. and Nancy D. (Sayre)
Wheeler, whose marriage was solemnized on the 30th of March,
1837. Grattan H. Wheeler was born in the town of Wheeler on
the 12th of March, 1813, and was a grandson of Silas Wheeler,
who served as a valiant soldier in the Continental line in the war
of the Revolution and who also took part in the war of 1812. Silas
Wheeler was a native of Concord, Massachusetts, and he took up
his residence in Steuben county, New York, about the year 1799.
Here he purchased a tract of land in what is now the town of
Wheeler and he. and his son, Grattan H., added: to their landed
estate from time to time until its area was more than four thou-

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sand acres. Silas Wheeler became the father of two daughters,
who were twins, and one son, Grattan H. The son was nineteen
years of age at the time when the family settled in the town of
Wheeler and there be continued to reside until his death. In
polities he was a stanch adherent of the Whig party and he was
called upon to serve in offices of distinctive public trust, includ-
ing that of representative in Congress and a member of the state
legislature. He married Miss Prances Baker, of Cameron, this
county, and they had three children,— Mrs. Sarah Brundage, Silas
and Grattan H., Jr. Grattan H. Wheeler, Sr., died on the 11th
of March, 1852, at the age of sixty-eight years, six months and
sixteen days, and his cherished and devoted wife was summoned to
eternal rest on the 22d of March, 1813, only ten days after the
birth of her only son.

Grattan H. Wheeler, Jr., father of Judge Wheeler, was af-
forded the advantages of the common schools of his day and he
continued to be actively identified with agricultural pursuits in
the township of Wheeler until December 9, 1857, when he removed
to Hammondsport, this county, and engaged in the raising of
grapes and the manufacturing of wine. He was one of the founders
of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company, which built the first wine
cellar in this section and which has long held wide reputation for
the production of high-grade wines. He was president of the
wine company for nine years and then established an individual
cellar, which was known as the Hammondsport Wine Cellar and
which continued to be operated under this title until 1880, when
the title of Hammondsport Wine Company was adopted. He was
the owner of a large and well improved landed estate and was a
man who wielded much influence in local affairs while he so or-
dered his course as to well merit the unqualified confidence and
esteem so uniformly reposed in him. In politics he was originally
a Whig but upon the organization of the Kepubliean party he
identified himself therewith, ever afterward continuing a stanch
advocate of its principles and policies. He served one term as
supervisor of Wheeler township and was at one time the candidate
of his party for the state legislature. Grattan H. Wheeler, Jr., was
summoned to eternal rest on the 10th of April, 1901, and his wife
passed away on the 27th of May, 1889. They became the parents
of ten children, of whom two sons and four daughters are now
living.

The name of Grattan, which has been borne by various mem-
bers of this old and honored family, has its origin according to
the following record. Silas Wheeler was taken prisoner by the
British after the historic "Boston tea-party," with which he was
supposed to have been identified, and he was confined in Kinsale
Castle, Ireland, from which he was assisted to escape by Lord
Henry Grattan, who requested Mr. Wheeler to name his son in
his honor. This name has been perpetuated in the various genera-
tions.

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Judge Monroe Wheeler gained his preliminary educational
training at Hammondsport Academy and later he took a partial
course in the literary department of the famous University of
Michigan. He then began the study of law, under the preeeptor-
ship of Honorable David B. Hill, later governor of New York, at
Elmira, and thereafter he continued his technical studies under
the direction of Hon. David Rumsey, of Bath, where for three
years he was managing clerk for the law firm of Rumsey & Miller.
In October, 1874, he was admitted to the bar and thereafter he
was engaged in the active practice of his profession at Hammonds-
port until 1906. He served as village attorney of Hammondsport
and there he built up a very successful practice, in which he con-
tinued until 1906, when he removed to Bath, establishing his home
on Liberty street. In 1900 he was elected surrogate of Steuben
county and upon the expiration of his first term, in 1906, he was
elected as his own successor, his present term expiring in 1912. On
the bench of this court Judge Wheeler has given a most able ad-
ministration and he is one of the most prominent and influential
representatives of his profession in his native county. He is a
stockholder in the White Top Champagne Company, in which he
formerly served as treasurer and a director, and he is the owner of
valuable real-estate at Hammondsport and Bath, as well as in
other sections of the county. He has been identified with the
early development of aviation, being president of the Curtiss Ex-
hibition Company, and he is general counsel for Mr. Glenn H.
Curtiss, the famous aviator.

In polities Judge Wheeler is a stanch supporter of the princi-
ples and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor
and he has done effective work in various campaigns. He is
identified with several fraternal and social organizations of rep-
resentative character and he holds a secure place in popular con-
fidence and esteem.

In the year 1877 was solemnized the marriage of Judge
Wheeler to Miss Emma White, a daughter of the late John White,
of Cohocton, Steuben county. New York, and the two children of
this union are David Rumsey and Harrison Sayre.

F. E. Barboue, M. D.— One of the most exacting of all the
higher lines of occupation to which a man may lend his energies is
that of a physician, but Dr. F. E. Barbour has gained distinction
in the profession, and he is at the same time an earnest and dis-
criminating student. His name has become widely known in con-
nection with the Barbour Sanatorium at Wayland, one of the best
known institutions of its kind in this part of the state. Dr. Bar-
bour has been practicing medicine in Wayland since 1901, and it
was in that year also that he established" the Barbour Sanatorium.
He is a graduate of both the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima,
New York, and of the Eclectic College at Lima, Ohio, m 1903, and
he has been associated with the practice of medicine for nineteen
years.

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Dr. Barbour was born at Springwater in Livingston county,
New York, in 1855, and his early educational training was ac-
quired in the district school near his boyhood's home. Jerrod and
Sarah J. (Langdon) Barbour, his parents, were farming people,
the father a native of Livingston county and the mother of Elmira
in Chemung county, New York, and their family numbered the
following children: Jerrod A., living in Jamestown, New York.;
Charles A., of Van Buren county, Michigan ; and P. E. Dr. F.
E. Barbour in addition to his large professional interests in Way-
land also maintains an office in Rochester, which he endeavors to
visit once a week. He has attained special recognition for his
skill in the treatment of cancers, all female diseases of a chronic
nature and in all sanatorium work, and he is not only skilful in the
treatment of diseases, but he possesses an attractive personality and
commands the respect of all who know him. As a physician he
enjoys high honors.

Dr. Barbour in 1876 was married to Miss Libby B. Bray, and
the five children born to them are: AUie A.; Sarah E., Mrs.
Goodno, and Maude, twins, the latter a trained nurse in Rochester ;
Minnie, Mrs. Sturner, whose husband occupies a professorship in
an educational institution in Rushford; and HoUis D. Barbour, of
Buffalo, New York.

Thomas L. Norton is numbered among the successful farmers
of Wayland township, where he owns and conducts a valuable
farm of one hundred and sixty-two acres east of the village of Way-
land. He has owned this place since 1905, and since then he has
made vast improvements in clearing, draining and cultivating and
in beautifying the buildings. He makes a specialty of the raising
of celery and lettuce, his average crop being twenty car loads of
the latter commodity and ten cars of celery, and he is also giving
some attention to the production of spinach. During the summer
months he furnishes employment to eight men, and two or three
are given constant employment. Mr. Norton has one hundred acres
of muck land under cultivation, and each year he adds to the value
of his farm and to his acreage for cultivation. His products are
sent to all parts of his own state and to adjacent ones, and the
superiority of his products insures a ready market.

Mr. Norton was born in Ontario county, New York, at East
Bloomfield, in 1881, and he was educated in the public schools
there and in the Rochester Business College. For some time he
was in the produce business with his father in Ontario county. He
is a son of Isaac and Nellie (Stoddard) Norton, and their only
heir. He married Miss Hazel E. Newman, from Canandaigua, New
York, in 1903, and their four children are Oscar E., Virginia J.,
Betty S. and Robert. I.

James Emanuel Schwarzenbach is a leader among the busi-
ness men of Hornell, New York, where he resides. He is a native
of Germania, Potter county, Pennsylvania, born March 26, 1868, a

HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 567

son of Joseph Sehwarzenbaeh, who was a marble carver and came
to the United States from Bavari^, Germany, in 1853. He was
only for a short time in New York city after arriving from his
native land, but went to Washington, D. C, where he was en-
gaged as a contractor in marble carving on the National Capitol
building, and came north to Germania, Pennsylvania, in 1857 where
he engaged in the brewing industry, which for fifty-three years has
been perpetuated by himself and his three sons. The father was
married to Louisa Seebald, who was also of German birth. The
mother died in her fifty-fifth year, while the father lived to be
sixty-nine.

Of the nine children of Joseph and Louisa (Seebald) Sehwar-
zenbaeh all but two grew to manhood and womanhood, James B.,
the youngest of the family now living, was educated in the pub-
lic schools at Germania, Pennsylvania, also had private tutors in
the German and English languages, and later received a business
education at Detroit, Michigan. When a young man he interested
himself in lumbering and various other enterprises with successful
results. He was one of the organizers and stockholders of the
First National Bank of Coudersport, Pennsylvania, and in 1895 lo-
cated in Hornell, New York, where he with his brothers Roland
and Herman Sehwarzenbaeh built the new plant of the Sehwarzen-
baeh Brewing Company, and in 1900 erected a new brewery at
Galeton, Pennsylvania, these two breweries later consolidated, in-
corporated for three hundred thousand dollars (par) and Mr.
Sehwarzenbaeh has held the position as its president since. He is a
director in the Bank of Steuben and was for seven years secretary
and treasurer of the Hornell Telephone Company; he is a director in
the Agricultural Fair Association of Hornell, was most prominent
in connection with the construction of the Hornell Maennerchor
Hall and is a di/ector of the association at the present time. Mr.
Sehwarzenbaeh is a stockholder in the Hornell and Bath Interurban
Electric Railway, is now serving his second four-year term as a
member of the Board of Public Works of the city of Hornell, is a
director of the Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Good
Roads Committee. It was largely due to his personal efforts that
the three public play grounds for children were established in his
home city and he has been most prominently identified with other
important public movements.

In his political alliances he is a Democrat; in 1893 he was a
candidate for office of representative in the state legislature and
ran far ahead of his ticket, especially in his home city, where he
was best known. He is now serving his third term as a member
of the Democratic State Committee, and in 1908 was appointed
as one of the "Big Four" alternate delegates at large to repre-
sent the Empire state at its national convention at Denver, Colo-
rado, which was a distinguished honor for a comparatively young
man from an interior town. He was a commissioner in connec-
tion with the Hudson-Fulton celebration, and acted with Pro-
fessor Schurmann of Cornell University and other leading men

568 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

of New York state in connection with this state affair. He is pres-
ident of the New York and Pennsylvania Bottlers' Association,
and was recently selected as one of the Committee of Patrons of the
Second International Brewers' Congress and True Temperance
Conference to be held in Chicago in October, 1911. In his society
afSliations he is a Mason, an Elk and an Eagle.

On May 7, 1900, Mr. Schwarzenbach married Miss Marie S.
Zieger, daughter of Louise Zieger, of Hornell, New York. She
has borne him two children, Norman Robert and Helen Lois.

Mr. Schwarzenbach is a recognized friend of organized labor,
and in Steuben county from the northern to the southern boundary,
and from its eastern to its western borders, there is not probably
a man of broader or more generous and spontaneous public spirit
than Mr. Schwarzenbach. He has the interests of the county and
his city close to his heart at all times and there is nothing that
he can do to advance them that he does not perform with a
prompt gladness that makes it a pleasure to appeal to him.

RoBEET James MaGill.— Prominent among the leading citizens
of Bath, Steuben county, is Robert James MaGill, who has been
identified with the agricultural and indiistrial interests of this
section of New York during his active career, and is now rendering
excellent service to his fellow-men as school commissioner. A native
of Bath township he was born June 13, 1872, a son of the late
Alexander MaGill.

Born in Ireland, Alexander MaGill came to America when
young, locating in the Empire state. During the Civil war he en-
listed in Company H, One Hundred and Forty-first New York
"Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the conflict.
Settling then in Steuben county, he was engaged in general farming
in Bath township until his death, February 2, 1893, at the age of
fifty-nine years. He married Esther White, a daughter of James
and Mary Ann (Dobbin) White, natives of Ireland, who came after
their marriage to America and settled on the White homestead in
Howard township. Three children were born of the union of Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander MaGill, namely: Mary Elizabeth, who mar-
ried Charles Brewer, died in Bath leaving, one child, Willis M.
Brewer, who was born July 1, 1892, and since the death of his
mother has lived with his uncle, Robert J. MaGill; Sarah, who
■ died unmarried ; and Robert J.

Robert J. MaGill attended the Bath High School, completing
his course in 1889. During the following "four years he taught
school during the winter terms, being engaged in farming during
seed time and harvest, and for the next four years taught the
year through. He was afterwards for three years engaged in the
coal business in Bath, being in partnership with W. D. Garrison.
He then served two years as town collector, at the expiration of
his term resuming the coal business, with his late partner as
manager, continuing until 1907. In that year Mr. MaGill had the
honor of being elected town clerk of Bath, the first Democrat elected

HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 571

to that position in the township for a full half century, and in
1909 he was elected to his present office of school commissioner.

Mr. MaGill married, February 16, 1910, Anna M. Bond, who
was born in Bath, a daughter of Charles and Jennie (Gilbert)
Bond, natives of Schuyler county, New York, Mr. Bond being now
engaged in business as a music dealer. Mr. MaGill is a member
of the Presbyterian church, and belongs to the Ancient Free an^
Accepted Order of Masons. His father was for many years a
member of Post No. 81, G. A. R., of Bath.

William W. Aveeell.— A life conspicuous by reason of the
magnitude and variety of its achievements was that of the late
William W. Averell, one of the distinguished and honored figures
in the history of the state of New York and one whose influence
transcended local environment to permeate national affairs. So
great an accomplishment as was his must, per se, imply exalted
character, and thus, beyond and above all. General Averell merits
perpetual honor by reason of the very strength and nobility of his
manhood. He rendered service to the state and nation to the full
extent of his powers; his labors were inspiring and his honesty of
purpose was beyond cavil. The reflex of the honors conferred upon
him are the honors he in turn conferred. It is not easy to describe
adequately a man who was as just in character and one who ac-
complished as much in the world as did General Averell, and the
limitations of this article are such as to render possible only a
cursory glance at the individuality and achievements of the man,—
not permitting extended geneological research or critical analysis
of character.

General Averell was a native of Steuben county and a mem-
ber of one of its old and honored pioneer families. He was born
at Cameron, this county, on the 5th of November, 1832, and his
death occurred at the sanitarium at Hornell, this county, whither
he had gone for medical treatment, on the 3d of February, 1900.
He was a son of Hiram and Huldah (Hemmingway) Averell, the
former of whom was bom in Delaware county, New York, whence
he came to Steuben county in the pioneer days, securing a tract of
forty-seven acres of land in Cameron township, where he reclaimed
a productive farm and where he became a citizen of prominence
and influence, ever commanding the unqualified confidence and
esteem of the community. He served as justice of the peace and
also as postmaster at Cameron and was a man of strong mentality
and sterling integrity of purpose. He passed the closing years of
his life in the city of Bath, this county, where he died at the
patriarchal age of ninety-two years. His wife also died at Bath,
having preceded him to eternal rest by many years.

General WiUiam W. Averell was reared to the sturdy discipline
of the farm and was afforded excellent educational advantages in
his youth, including a course at Blmira Institute. He intended
to prepare himself for the medical profession but he was deflected
from this course by reason of receiving an appointment to a cadet-

572 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY

ship to the United States Military Academy at West Point, in
which he became a student on the 1st of July, 1851. There he was
graduated on the 1st of July, 1855, and he immediately received
brevet rank as second lieutenant of mounted riflemen, in which
connection he served in the garrison at Jefferson Barracks, in
Missouri, in 1855, on the 1st of May of which latter year he was
promoted to second lieutenant of mounted riflemen. He was at the
Cavalry School for Practice at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1856-7;
was on frontier duty in command of the escort to the commanding
general of the department of New Mexico in 1857, and in that
year was stationed for a time in Fort Craig, that territory. He
was in active service in scouting and was engaged in a skirmish
with the Kiowa Indians at Fort Craig on the 7th of Decembei,
1857. He continued to be identified with scouting and other mili-
tary operations in the southwest, including the Navajo expedition,
in 1858, and he participated in a skirmish in Chusea valley, Septem-
ber 29, 1859. Prior to this, on the 1st of October, 1858, he took
part in a skirmish with Kyatano 's band of Indians and in a skirmish
at Puereo of the West on the 8th of the same month, in which
engagement he was severely wounded in a night attack on the camp.
He thereafter continued in frontier duty at Fort Craig until
granted a leave of absence on account of sickness, in 1859.

When the dark cloud of Civil war cast its pall over the national
horizon General Aver ell was still with the regular army and forth-
with became identified with active military operations. On the
30th of May, 1861, he returned from the west to the national capi-
tal and from the 7th of June to the 2nd of July he was engaged
in mustering duty at Elmira, New York, in the meanwhile having
been promoted first lieutenant. From July 5 to October 9, 1861,
he was acting assistant adjutant general to General Porter. In
Julyj 1861, he took part in the Manassas campaign and on the 21st
of that month he participated in the battle of Bull Run. He was
on provost duty at Washington, D. C, from July 30 to October 9 of
that year and was in command of a cavalry brigade in front of the
defense of Washington, D. C, until March 1862, having thus
served as colonel of the Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, to
which office he was promoted on the 23d of August, 1861. He led
the advance on Manassas in March, 1862, and was in the Army of
the fotomac in the peninsular campaign in Virginia from March to
August of that year. In this connection he took part in the siege
of Yorktown and the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks and Mal-
vern Hill. On the 26th of September, 1862, he was made brigadier
general of volunteers and in October and November of that year he
was engaged in scouting on the upper Potomac, where he took part
in numerous skirmishes. Later he was with the Army of , the
Potomac in the Rappahannock campaign in which he took part in
the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. He was in com-
mand of the second cavalry division from February 2 to May 4,
1863, and on the 17th of March of that year he was in command in
the engagement at Kelly's Ford, where his gallant and meritorious

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service gained to him the brevet rank of major general. He par-
ticipated in Stoneman's raid toward Richmond, Virginia, and was
thereafter in command of the Port Separate brigade in operations
in West Virginia, in connection with which, he had command in
the combat at Rocky Gap and the engagement at Droop IMountain.
On the 6th of November, 1863, he was brevetted lieutenant colonel
in recognition of his gallant and meritorious service in the action at
Droop Mountain. On the 15th of December, 1863, he was brevetted
colonel, for gallant and meritorious service during the Salem
expedition in Virginia. He commanded the second cavalry division
in operations in Virginia from April 26, 1864^ to May 18, 1865,
being in command in the action at Cove Gap on May 10, 1864, and
being wounded in this engagement. Thereafter he marched with his
command across the Alleghany mountains to Staunton, Virginia,
and joined the expedition against Lynchburg, in which connection
he took part in several skirmishes. He marched his command to the
Kanawha and Shenandoah Valleys and he defeated Ramseur's
division at Carter's Farm, July 20, 1864. He took part in the
combat at "Winchester on the 24th of July and thereafter went in
pursuit of MeCausland's raiders. On the 8th of August, 1864, he
took part in the engagement at Moorefield and thereafter he was
in command of his forces in various skirmishes. He participated
in the battle of Opequan on the 19th of September, 1864, the battle
of Fisher's Hill on the 22d of the same month and the action at
Mount Jackson on the following day. On the 13th of March, 1865,
he received the brevet rank of brigadier general of the United
States Army for gallant and meritorious service in the field during
the rebellion and on the same date he was brevetted major general
in recognition of his splendid service in the battle of Moorefield, in
Virginia. He resigned his position in the army on the 18th of
May, 1865, but was finally reinstated in the United States Army by
special act of congress and was placed upon the retired list. Later
he served ten years as assistant inspector general of the Soldier's
Home of the United States. His duties in this connection were
most arduous as they involved from fifteen thousand to twenty
thousand miles of travel each year, besides the inspection of the
various Soldiers' Homes. From 1866 to 1869 he was United States
counsul general of Canada. Framed and hanging upon the
wall of the attractive home so long occupied by General Averell,
at Bath, is an interesting record concerning the honors tendered
him at the time of the Civil war and the inscription is worthy of
reproduction in this article : "At a dinner given to General Averell
at Bath, New York, on January 26, 1864, by the oldest citizens of
Steuben county, this identical paraphrase of his dispatch to Gen-
eral Halleck, relating to the Salem raid, was written and dis-
played on the walls by Guy Humphrey McMaster :

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'"To General Halleck:

By marching and riding,

By swimming and sliding,

By dodging and squeezing,

By thawing and freezing,

"We went down to Salem

And tore up the railin. ' ' '
General Averell was a man of much inventive ability and had
the distinction of being the inventor of asphalt paving. His first
successful work in this line was the paving of Pennsylvania avenue
in the city of Washington, D. C. He organized a company for the
manufacturing of asphalt and was eventually deprived of his inter-
ests in the same by the fraudulent methods of his associates. For
thirteen years the affairs of the company were in litigation and set-
tlement was finally made with General Averell. This was a case
which attracted national attention and interest. General Averell
ever continued a close and appreciative student of the best in
literature and science and he was specially interested in practical
electrical affairs, in which he became well informed. He passed
several years in New York city in perfecting a conduit for electric
wires and he finally received a patent on this valuable invention. He
was a man of most gracious and courtly manners, genial and kindly
in his intercourse with his fellow men and no citizen of Steuben
county held a more secure place in popular confidence and regard.
He formed the acquaintance of many of the most distinguished
public men of the nation, including President Lincoln and the mem-
bers of his cabinet and in latter years also he had the close friend-
ship of many prominent and influential citizens. He continued
to maintain his home in the attractive little city of Bath until he
was summoned to the life eternal and here his name is held in
reverent memory. He was a stanch Republican in his political
allegiance and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic
and other fraternal and social organizations. He held membership
in the Episcopal church, as does also his widow, who still resides
in the beautiful old homestead at 121 Liberty street, Bath.

In September, 1885, was solemnized the marriage of General
Averell to Mrs. Kezia Haywood, who was born in Surdan, England,
and who has been a most popular figure in the best social activities
of Bath. No children were born of this union.

Rev. J. H. Ryder, D. D.— Among those who play a prominent
role in the every-day life of Wayland is the Rev. J. H. Ryder, D.D.
pastor of the United Evangelical church. He was born in Lycoming
county, Pennsylvania, in 1871, his parents being John and Hannah
J. (Derrick) Ryder, who were also natives of that county. Rev.
Mr. Ryder is one of ten living children, a somewhat unusual dis-
tinction in the present day. He passed his early years within the
borders of the county which gave him birth, attending the public
schools and graduating from its higher department. This train-
ing he supplemented with a course in the Lycoming county and

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Bloomsburg State Normal School, from which institution he was
graduated in 1898. His natural gifts and inclinations particularly-
fitting him for the ministry, he took a theological course and was
ordained in 1903. His studies preliminary to becoming an ex-
pounder of the gospel were pursued in the Potomac University,
which gave him the degree of B. D.

Eev. Mr. Ryder's first pastorate was at Dorsey, Maryland,
where he remained for four years and from whence he was
transferred to Grover, Pennsylvania. He remained four years in
the latter place and in March, 1909, entered upon his present charge
at Wayland. It has been his portion to make steady development
and he is greatly esteemed by his church, which recognizes the
unusual value of his services. He is an excellent orator and his
sermons are brief, plain, comprehensive and convincing. In 1909 he
was honored by the degree of Doctor of Divinity, after a four-year
course in the Oriental University of Alexandria, Virginia. The
church of which Rev. Mr. Ryder is pastor is less than twenty years
old. In 1894, when the building was erected, it had a membership
of only twenty, which has subsequently increased to one hundred,
with a Sunday-school enrollment of one hundred and twenty-
seven. The valuation of the church property is about seven thou-
sand dollars. The first pastor was Rev. J. W. Thompson, who
was followed by Rev. L. M. Dice and he in turn by Rev. C. C.
Mizner. As stated previously, Rev. Mr. Ryder undertools its
spiritual guidance in 1909.

In 1901 Mr. Ryder took as his bride Mary, daughter of Robert
and Ellen Huston. To this union have been born two children,
Robert H. and Helen J.

Nicholas Malter, the proprietor of the Perkinsville Hotel,
is fitted by natural geniality and hospitality for the post which he
holds so well. The hotel which Mr. Malter purchased and fitted up
in 1909 is well adapted to meet the demands of the traveling public.
Mr. Malter is a, native of the town in which he still resides, having
been bom here in 1865. Here he was reared and educated and here
began his career as a wage-earner. His parents were Nicholas
and Margaret Malter, the former being also a native of Perkins-
ville where in 1836 he was born. The mother was a native of
Germany in which country she was born in 1842, and three years
later was brought to this country by her parents, whose names were
John and Catherine Rauber. On the paternal side Mr. Malter is
likewise German, his grandfather, also Nicholas Malter, with his
wife, Catherine, coming to this country in 1834, shortly after their
marriage and being among the early settlers in Steuben county.
Their six children, Jacob, Catherine, Nicholas, John, Mary and
Elizabeth experienced the peculiar advantages and privations of a
new country and grew up to be strong and progressive citizens. Mr.
Malter's parents were married about 1859 and to this union five
children were born, namely, Elizabeth, Nicholas, Jacob, Frank and
Stephen.

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Mr. Malter's father was a butcher by trade and this he fol-
lowed for over forty years. He was a loyal citizen and a stanch
member of society, serving his village as constable for twenty-six
years. He was collector for two years and excise commissioner for
twelve. He and his wife were consistent members of the Catholic
church and their descendants have followed in their footsteps in this
particular. The father died in December, 1897, his widow surviving
to the present day.

During his early years Mr. Malter assisted his father in his
business, but later took up telegraphy and served in the employ
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. He remained
with this railroad for fourteen years. He later took up the hotel
business and in this new line of endeavor has proved eminently
successful.

In 1892 Mr. Malter was united in marriage to Miss Angeline
Dides and four children were born to them, Isabelle, Dorothea,
Anna and Nicholas. Mrs. Malter died in 1904 and in 1906 he was
united to Miss Cecelia McHale by whom he has had one child, a
daughter named Cecelia M.

George W. Peck.— The present supervisor of Bath township
is recognized as one of the most progressive and substantial busi-
ness men of Steuben county and is president of the George W. Peck
Company, which has built up a hardware business of wide scope
and importance and which conducts a number of well equipped
stores in this section of the state.

Mr. Peck was bom at Landsdowne, Leeds county, province
of Ontario, Canada, on the 18th of February, 1854. His father.
Rev. James B. Peck, was a native of England, whence he came to
America when a young man and in 1840 he settled in Jeflferson
county. New York. For forty years he was active in the work of
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church and he was known
as a man of fine intellectual attainments and of consecrated zeal in
his chosen vocation. During the greater portion of his work as a
clergyman he maintained his home in Steuben county and here he
died in the year 1900, at the age of seventy-five years. His memory
is revered in this community and his life was one of signal
purity and devotion. His wife, whose maiden name was Louisa
Warren, now resides at Knoxville, Pennsylvania, and she has at-
tained to the venerable age of eighty-three years (1910).

George W. Peek gained his early educational training in the
public schools of the state of New York and when but fourteen
years of age he entered the employ of the firm of Powers & Wagner
at Sayona, Steuben county. He assumed this position in 1870 and
in this connection he gained his initial experience in the hardware
business in which he was later to achieve so much of prominence
and success. In 1875 Mr. Peek became a member of the firm of
Wagner & Peck and in the following year he purchased his part-
ner's interest in the business, which he individually continued at
Savona until 1880. He then removed to Prattsburg, this county,

HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUXTY 577

where he purchased the hardware stock of George H. Look. In 1883
he established a branch store at Pulteney, Steuben county, and in
1886 he purchased another stock of hardware at Cohocton, Steuben
county. In 1888 he effected the purchase of the stock of Hodgman
and McNamara, of Bath, and in 1893 he established a branch store
at Bradford, this county. In the following year he found it ex-
pedient to bring his various mercantile interests into more effective
control by the organization of a stock company, which was duly
incorporated under the present title of the George W. Peck Com-
pany. When he began operations as an independent business man,
in 1875, the annual business controlled did not exceed four thousand
dollars and the splendid growth of the enterprise under his able
management is measurably indicated when it is stated that the
aggregate amount of business done by this company in 1910 was
fully two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The George "W. Peck
Company also conducts stores at Canandaigua, Penn Yan and
Dansville. Mr. Peck is also one of the largest stockholders of the
Bath Harness Company, which has built up a large business in the
manufacturing of harness and in 1906 this corporation erected a
substantial cement building in Bath for the manufacturing of its
products. The company gives employment to an average of sixty
persons and its annual transactions have reached the notable aggre-
gate of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Peck is a mem-
ber of the directorate of this corporation, which bases its operations
upon a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars. He is also president
of the Bath Knitting Mills.

Mr. Peck is essentially progressive and public-spirited as a citi-
zen and gives a loyal support to all measures and enterprises tend-
ing to advance the general welfare of the community. He is a
man of high civic ideas and ideals and his political proclivities are
in line with the Democratic party, in whose local councils he is an
influential factor. He was elected chairman of the Democratic coun-
ty committee of Steuben county in 1907 and he has been called upon
to serve in various public offices of a public order. While a resi-
dent of the town of Prattsburg he was elected supervisor, in 1888,
serving one term in this office and also having been, a member of
the board of education of that town. In 1907 he was elected super-
visor of the town of Bath, by a majority of fifty-two votes and the
popular estimate placed upon his service in this connection is
clearly indicated when it is stated that in 1909 he was re-elected by
a majority of four hundred and forty-two votes, carrying every
voting precinct in the township. He has been on several occasions
a delegate to the Democratic state convention and he has been
otherwise active in the work of his party. Mrs. Peck is a zealous
member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Bath and was also
a member of the local board of education from 1905 to 1908. The
family is prominent in the best social life of the community and
here its members enjoy unalloyed popularity.

In the year 1884 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Peck to
Miss Flora Griswold, daughter of the late Benajah Griswold, of

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Darien, Genesee eoimty, New York. Of this union have been born
five children, namely, George G., J. Arthur, Flora M., Warren S.
and John Elwood. All of the sons except the youngest, who is still
attending school, are identified with the business enterprise of their
father and are being thoroughly trained in connection therewith.
The only daughter is a member of the class of 1912 in Elmira Col-
lege.

Feed B. Bradley. — A man of undoubted enterprise and
sagacity, industrious and progressive, Fred E. Bradley, of Bath
township, is a valued representative of the prosperous agriculturists
of this part of Steuben county, as a farmer displaying excellent
judgment in his operations. A son of Zera S. Bradley, he was born,
October 20, 1867, at Kanona, Steuben county, coming from dis-
tinguished patriotic stock, his great grandfather, Sterges Bradley,
having served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war.

Mr. Bradley's grandfather, Zera Bradley, was born in 1796,
in the town of Butternuts, Otsego county, New York. Coming from
there to Steuben county in 1830, he located in Bath township, and
ten years later bought the Bradley homestead property, on which
he continued his residence until his death, November 13, 1879. His
vrife, whose maiden name was Emily L. Osborn, was born August
19, 1818, and died February 16, 1882.

Zera S. Bradley was born on the Bradley homestead, in Bath
township, June 30, 1844. He received a good education, after leav-
ing the public schools, taking a course of study in a commercial
college. Succeeding to the ownership of the home farm, he was here
engaged in general agriculture until his death, December 29, 1908.
He married Lida Shaver, September 25, 1866, who was born Octo-
ber 1, 1845, in Avoca, New York, a daughter of Alexander Shaver,
and died on the home farm, in Bath township, February 10, 1893.
Three children were born into their household, namely, Louis K.,
engaged in farming in Bath ; John D., engaged in the grocery busi-
ness at Prattsburg; and Fred E.

After his graduation from the Bath High School, Fred E.
Bradley taught school two terms in Wheeler, but since 1897 has been
successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits at his present home,
having one of the finest improved and best equipped farms in
Bath township.

Mr. Bradley married Evangeline Warren, October 15, 1890,
who was born May 21, 1867, in Kanona, a daughter of Francis M.
and Sophia (Willis) Warren, of Bath, both of whose families
were among the pioneer settlers of Steuben county. To Fred E. and
Evangeline Bradley two children have been born, namely, Alida
Evangeline Bradley, born March 20, 1894, now a junior in Haver-
ling High School at Bath and Fred Warren Bradley, born Feb-
ruary 14, 1900. Mr. Bradley is a member of Bath Grange.

Charles D. Bakek.— Numbered among the essentially repre-
sentative members of the bar of the national metropolis is Charles
Duane Baker, who is now special counsel and attorney for the

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 579

department of justice in New York city, of which position he has
been incumbent since 1910, having been appointed to this office
by the attorney general of the United States. Mr. Baker is a scion
of old and honored families of the Empire state and the name
which he bears has long been identified with the annals of Steuben
county. He was born at Painted Post, this county, on the 17th of
September, 1846, and is a son of Harrison H. and Elizabeth (Flem-
ing) Baker, both of whom were likewise born and reared at Painted
Post. Harrison H. Baker was a millwright by trade and followed
the same in his earlier career. He later turned his attention to the
lumber industry and became a successful lumber manufacturer at
Painted Post, where he continued to reside until his death, which
occurred when he was about forty-seven years of age. He was a
progressive and public-spirited citizen and was influential in local
affairs while he ever commanded the unqualified esteem of the
community, in which his long life was passed. His father, Jonathan
Baker, was a native of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and
was one of the pioneer settlers of Painted Post, Steuben county.
New York, where he achieved marked success as a business man
and where he established the first mill in that county. In politics
he was a Democrat and a stanch supporter of the policies of Pres-
ident Jackson. His wife, whose maiden name was Dorcas Gorton,
was a member of the well known family of that name in New
York. Mrs. Elizabeth (Fleming) Baker was a daughter of John
Fleming, who likewise was a sterling pioneer and prominent busi-
ness man of Painted Post, the lineage of the family being traced
back to stanch Flemish stock ; she was seventy years of age at the
time of her death and of the children who attained to years of
maturity, the subject of this review was the second in order of
birth. The only other surviving son is Clarence E., who is a resi-
dent of the city of Chicago.

Charles Duane Baker was afforded excellent educational ad-
vantages in his youth, having gained his early discipline in the
common schools of his native county and having later attended
Overland College for two years. He was then matriculated in
Cornell University, at Ithaca, in which institution he completed
the classical course and was graduated as a member of the class of
1874, duly receiving his degree of Bachelor of Arts. Shortly
afterwards he returned to his native county and located at Corning,
where he began the study of law, under effective preceptorship, one
of his instructors having been Judge Bradley, a representative
member of the bar of that county. He made excellent progress
in his absorption and assimilation of the science of jurisprudence
and was admitted to the bar in 1876. Thereafter he was actively
engaged in the practice of his profession at Corning for a number
of years, having been associated for some time with John "W. Brown
and later with Henry Thompson. In 1884 he was elected to repre-
sent the Second district of Steuben county in the state legislature,
in which he served three consecutive terms and in which he made
an admirable record. At the close of his last term, he removed

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to New York city, where he engaged in the general practice of his
profession. Two years later he was appointed assistant United
States attorney, under the administration of President Harrison,
and during his incumbency of this office his headquarters were
maintained in the Federal building. He finally resigned the office
and resumed the private practice of his profession but under the
administration of President McKinley he was again appointed
United States district attorney, of which position he continued in
tenure also during the administration of President Roosevelt. He
resigned the office in 1908 and thereafter was engaged in private
practice until 1910, when he was appointed to his present im-
portant office, that of special counsel and attorney for the newly
organized department of justice in New York city, this appointment
having been made by Attorney General Wiekersham. Mr. Baker
has ever given an unqualified allegiance to the Republican party and
he has rendered yeoman service in behalf of its cause in the various
campaigns, being known as an able exponent of its principles and as
an especially resourceful campaign orator. He is recognized as
one of the finely equipped members of the bar of his native state and
he has won distinctive prestige both as an advocate and as a counselor
He continues to take a lively interest in the affairs of his native
county and signifies the same by his membership in Steuben
County Society of New York City. He is affiliated with the
Jlasonic fraternity and holds membership in various civic organiza-
tions.

In January, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of J\Ir. Baker to
Miss Letitia Beattie Rock, a daughter of Alfred Rock, a well known
citizen of Brooklyn, New York. The three children of this union
are, Charles Duane, Jr., David Dudley Field and Caroline Beattie.

Elmer S. Redman.— Among those citizens whom Hornell is
happy to call representative stands Elmer S. Redman, who since
September, 1898, has held the position of city superintendent of
public schools. As an educator of high ideals and splendid accom-
plishment he enjoys prestige throughout this section of the Em-
pire state. No field is more important and nowhere is enlightened
effort farther reaching in effect than in public education and to
Dr. Redman's progressiveness Hornell is indeed indebted, her
schools being of excellent order. He is also a lecturer of note, being
eloquent, logical and convincing and many educational bodies have
reaped the benefits of his originality.

Dr. Redman was born in AUen, New York, August 19, 1861, his
parents being John D. Redman, Jr. and Clarissa A. (Scoville) Red-
man. These worthy people are representatives of old and honored
families of New England, that cradle of so much of our national
history. The father was born in the city of Boston and the mother
in Vermont, the immediate forebears of both parents having been
prominent in the Revolutionary war. The Redmans were the
stanchest of patriots, and among the dearest possessions of Dr.
Redman is a small chest taken from a "tea-ship" in the Boston

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harbor by his great-great-grandfather. In the matter of vocation
the subject has in a measure followed in the footsteps of his
father, that gentleman having answered to the double calling of
farmer and schoolmaster.

Dr. Redman enjoyed the advantages of a wide and varied edu-
cation. His preliminary schooling was in the country schools and
he subsequently attended Belfast high school, from whose. portals
he advanced to the Geneseo State Normal School, from which latter
institution he was graduated. By no means of the type which is
content to let well enough alone he attended university after uni-
versity and added degree to degree, receiving the inestimable benefit
of association with some of the finest minds of the age. In 1892 he
was graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan University, in 1894 ob-
taining the degree of Master of Arts by post-graduate work, and
in 1898 becoming entitled to that of Doctor of Philosophy. In 1894
he was also awarded the degree of Master of Arts by Alfred
University of Alfred, New York, and later he attended lectures at
the New York University. To add to all this he studied abroad,
in the years 1896, 1905 and 1909, the scenes of his foreign study
being all the countries of Europe except Russia and Spain.

Dr. Redman has been a teacher from his earliest youth. Dur-
ing his first years of college life he taught school in order to obtain
money to pursue his education, and his success from the first, and
the never-failing satisfaction taken by the public in his efforts in
the training of the youthful mind, led him to adopt the pedagogical
profession as a life work. He has held various important posts, all
of them in his native state. He was for three years principal of
the Angelica high school and then removed to Belfast, where he was
engaged in a similar capacity for a like period of years. Rockville
Centre became the scene of his endeavors, and for six years he acted
as principal of the schools of that thriving Long Island town, just
outside Greater New York City, severing his associations there to
accept the superintendency of the schools of Hornell, where he has
continued for more than twelve years. He has also had a short but
interesting experience as a newspaper man, having for a time edited
the Livingston County Progress.

Politically Dr. Redman is independent, in his convictions the
best man and the best measure far outweighing mere partisanship.
His fraternal affiliations extend to the ancient and august Masonic
order and he and his wife are members of the Baptist church, m
which he has held various offices, such as deacon, president of the
board of trustees, etc. He is a valued member of several organiza-
tions having to do with his profession, these including the National
Education Association, the State Council of School Superintendents
and the State Association of Normal Schools; the second and third
having claimed his as president.

In the year 1884 Dr. Redman insured a congenial life com-
panionship by his union with Miss Mary L. Dexter, daughter of
William Dexter, of Angelica, New York. The children of this

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marriage are lona Fern, born in 1892; Gladstone Elmer, born in
1894, and Olive, born in 1900.

Colonel Andrew Jackson Switzee, who resides in the attrac-
tive little city of Bath, is a native son of Steuben county and a
member of one of its sterling pioneer families. He has been con-
spicuously identified with the upbuilding of grape-culture and the
wine industry, which have given this county wide prestige and have
added largely to its material and civic prosperity. Colonel Switzer
was born at Bradford, Steuben county, on the 8th of February,
1833, and is a son of John and Sarah (Rowlesj Switzer, the former
was born in Newark, New Jersey, and the latter also ip New
Jersey. The father died in Bradford, Steuben county, where he
passed the major portion of his life and he was an octogenarian at
the time of his death. His cherished and devoted wife lived to at-
tain to the venerable age of more than ninety years. John Switzer
was a son of John Switzer, who, with his wife, immigrated from
Germany to America and the limitations of whose financial resources
may be realized when it is stated that for three years after their
arrival in the United States they utilized all their surplus earnings
in paying for their passage on the vessel which brought them to
the new world. They became the parents of four children, Henry,
John, William and Peter, and when John, the second son, was nine
years of age they removed to Steuben county and located in Brad-
ford township. Here the father purchased about two sections of
land and he reclaimed a considerable portion of the tract to culti-
vation, continuing to reside on the homestead until his death. After
the death of his father John Switzer, Jr., inherited about one hun-
dred and sixty acres of the old homestead and he developed this
tract into a productive farm, upon which both he and his devoted
wife continued to reside until their death, their marriage having
been solemnized in Steuben county.

Colonel Andrew J. Switzer passed his boyhood days on the
home farm and after availing himself of the advantages of the
common schools he continued his studies in Alfred University.
That he made good use of the opportunities thus given him is shown
by the fact that as a young man he became a successful and popular
teacher in Haverling Academy, at Bath, an institution that has long
held a high reputation. He finally went to Watertown, Wisconsin,
where he taught school for one winter and he then went to the city
of Chicago, whence he proceeded to Lawrence, Kansas, where he
i-emained a few months. From that place he went to Topeivj and
thence he accompanied his cousin, John Brown, to Atchison, Kan-
sas. He met with numerous adventures on his trip through the
west and at Kansas City, Missouri, he met his brother. Richard,
whom he accompanied to Council Bluffs, Iowa. From that point the
brothers proceeded by stage to Burlington, that state, and thence
to central Illinois, where the brother of the Colonel purchased one
hundred and sixty acres of land at Mendota. The Colonel himself
soon afterward returned to the old homestead farm near Bradford,

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Steuben county, having inherited this property from his father.
A year later he sold the farm and located at Hammondsport, where
he studied law for a short time, under the preceptorship of Clark
Bell, with whom he soon became interested in the growing of
grapes. Messrs. Bell and Switzer, together with Henry H. Cook,
purchased about thirty acres of grape vineyard and Colonel Switzer
assumed the active supervision of the same. In December, 1864,
the three interested principals. Colonel Switzer and Messrs. Bell and
Cook, effected the organization of the Urbana Wine Company,
which was incorporated in January, 1865. John "W. Davis, Henry
Harlow Hakes and D. M. Hildreth later became stockholders in the
company and Colonel Switzer became general manager of the busi-
ness. He has been actively and prominently identified with grape
culture and the manufacturing of wine during the long intervening
years and is at the present time secretary of the Urbana Wine
Company, as well as a member of its board of directors. The
product of this company is of the highest standard and has done
much to give precedence to Steuben county as a wine manufacturing
center. The company has long controlled a large and substantial
trade and it is one of the largest concerns of the kind in this section
of the state. While the manufactory of the company is located at
Hammondsport Colonel Switzer has maintained his residence at
Bath since 1880. He has been conrected with the company forty-
six years.

Colonel Switzer has long been recognized as one of the progres-
sive and public-spirited citizens of his native county and he has done
all in his power to further its social and material development and
upbuilding. He has given his allegiance to the Republican party
since the time of its organization, with the exception of the occasion
when Horace Greeley was the nominee of the Democratic party for
president of the United States. Horace Greeley, in fact, made him a
Republican for he was born a Democrat. Colonel Switzer served
on the military staffs of Governors Crane and Cornell with the rank
of colonel and from this service he gained the title by which he is
familiarly known. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and
the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks and both he and his
wife hold membership in the Presbyterian church.

In the year 1862 was solemnized the marriage of Colonel Swit-
zer to Miss Fidelia Hastings, who was born in Bath and reared in
Howard township, Steuben county, where her father settled in the
pioneer days. Colonel and Mrs. Switzer became the parents of
four children, concerning whom the following brief record is given :
Luin is engaged in the drug business at Southport, Connecticut;
Charles C. is a representative dentist of Norwich, New York; George
H. is an electrical engineer by profession and resides at Bath,
Steuben county ; and Henry died in infancy.

Charles A. Millee.— A prominent member of that progres-
sive and public-spirited citizenship in which Steuben county takes

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proper pride is Charles A. Miller, a prosperous farmer and poultry
raiser residing in Rathbone township. As in so many instances
when tracing the lineage of America's best stock it is discovered
that Mv. Miller's forebears are German, his parents, Maurice and
Marie (Schaefer) Miller, both being natives of the "Fatherland."
They followed the westward course of emigration to America early
in the fifties, breaking home ties for the fuller opportunities of a
new land. They lived for a time in New York city, and it was in
this metropolis that Mr. Miller was born. The fatiier was a tin
and copper smith and was a mechanic of a high order of ability, and
he continued to pursue his trade in this country. "When, Mr. Miller
was still a youth his father moved his family to Chicago. The
father continued to reside in that city until the time of his death
and Mr. Miller's residence there was of twenty-three years' dura-
tion. After 'he had received his education in New York city he
almost immediately took up his struggle with the world, and entered
the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. It is a favor-
able comment upon his ability and trustworthiness that he con-
tinued in the service of this railway for over twenty years, serving
for seven and a half years as fireman and for fifteen and a half as
locomotive engineer.

In course of time Mr. lliller, who haa always had some inclina-
tion toward agriculture, came eastward again to Steuben county
and became the possessor of a farm of eighty acres of valuable laTid.
This farm, which he has had under his management since 1895, is
centrally located and has many natural advantages in addition to
the up-to-date improvements which have been lavished upon it.
In connection with his farming Mr. Miller raises poultry and his
efforts in this line have been crowned with undeniable success. He
winters about three hundred laying hens, besides his other fowls
for breeding purposes, and his poultry is of the best strain of
White Leghorn. It was in 1904 that Mr. Miller decided to devote
part of his attention to the poultry business and he has found in it
much pleasure as well as profit. He stands high in the affection
and esteem of his neighbors and he is serving his second term as a
justice of the peace, in which capacity he has given the highest sat-
isfaction. He is a member of the Grange and he and his family are
earnest and consistent members of the Presbyterian church, to
which they give generous support in every way.

Mr. Miller laid the foundation of a happy household in 1878,
in which year he was united in marriage to Miss Ida Falkner,
daughter of Rensselaer and Mary Falkner. Mrs. Miller was born
in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, in 1856. She comes of fine Amer-
ican stock, many of her ancestors having been stanch patriots who
gladly risked their lives for their country. Her father did valiant
service at the time of the Rebellion. He served three years and was
Quartermaster Sergeant of Company H, Second Regiment Colorado
Volunteer Cavalry. In one encounter he had a horse shot from un-
der him. Her maternal grandfather, Benjamin Smith, was mar-
ried three times to three sisters in succession, by whom he had

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seven children. One of these sons, Asa, was a classmate of President
Arthur. The Smiths are closely related to the Howlands, who came
to this continent in the Mayflower. They ultimately settled in
Pennsylvania and their descendants migrated to Steuben county.
The previously mentioned Benjamin Smith saw service in the war of
1812. This heritage of patriotism has been an inspiration to Mrs.
Miller's children, who are of the best type of young American
citizenhood. Mr. Miller's children are five in number: C.Arthur,
who married Miss Florence Merring ; Herbert F., who married Miss
Kate Young; Maud E., now Mrs. F. Perry; Marie I., now Mrs. R.
Hannah, and Maurice E., who is a law student.

Douglass H. Smith, M. D.— It is gratifying to enter record
concerning the career of Dr. Smith, from the fact that he is a native
of Steuben county, a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families and
a worthy representative of the profession which was dignified and
honored by the life and services of his father. He is engaged in
the active practice of his profession at Bath and is known as one
of the able and successful physicians and surgeons of his native
county.

Dr. Douglass H. Smith was born at Bath, Steuben county,
New York, on the 22nd of October, 1879, and is a son of Dr.
Ira P. and Harriet Amelia (Smith) Smith. Dr. Ira P. Smith was
born at ROgersviUe, Steuben county, on the 19th of August, 1835,
and he died at Bath, this county, on the 26th of May, 1905. His
wife was born in the town of Bath, this county, on the 28th of
February, 1842, and here she passed away on the 11th of December,
1907. Andrew Smith, the maternal great-grandfather of the sub-
ject of this review, was a native of Scotland, whence he emigrated
to America in 1792, coming with Colonel Williamson, the first set-
tler of Steuben county. Andrew Smith for some time had charge
of the farming operations of his friend and associate. Colonel
Williamson, and he had the supervision of the reclamation of much
land in Steuben county, where he directed the work at various
times of from thirty to fifty men. About 1798 he established
his home on his farm, a short distance from the village of Bath,
where he continued to reside until his death. He was a man of
ability and sterling character and as he was a skillful surveyor he
found much requisition for his services in this capacity m the early
pioneer days. He was one of the first settlers of Steuben county
and his name is enrolled on the roster of its sterling pioneers. His
son John J. Smith, grandfather of him whose name introduces
this sketch, continued to reside in the vicinity of the village ot
Bath throughout his entire life and his active career was one o±
successful and close identification with agricultural pursuits.

Dr Ira P Smith was a son of William Smith, who removed
from Vermont to Steuben county in an early day and he here
passed the residue of his life as did also his wife. Both were
representatives of families founded in New England m the colonial
epoch of our national history. Dr. Ira P. Smith was one of a

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family of four children and he was reared to the sturdy dis-
cipline of the farm but was afforded the best educational ad-
vantages available in the locality and period, including those of
Union Seminary at Rogersville. For some time he was engaged in
teaching in the schools of Steuben county and later he passed one
year as a student in the celebrated University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor. He began the study of medicine under the able preceptor-
ship of Charles S. Acbley, of Rogersville, Steuben county, and
finally he entered the Albany Medical College, in which well ordered
institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1859, with
the well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. He immediately
began the practice of his profession at Avoca, Steuben county,
where he remained until 1862, when he tendered his services to
the Union by assuming the position of acting assistant surgeon in
the regular army; an office which he retained for two years. He
then returned to his native county and located at Bath, where he
continued in the active practice of his profession until the time of
his death. He gained prestige as one of the earnest and well
fortified physicians and surgeons of the county and kept in touch
with the advancement made in both departments of his profes-
sion. He was in the most significant sense humanity's friend and
he labored with all of zeal and devotion in the alleviation of suffer-
ing and distress. At the time of his demise he was the eldest mem-
ber of the Steuben County Medical Society, of which he had served
as president. He also gave effective service as a member of the
board of pension-examining surgeons of Steuben county and was
president of the Bath Bible Society. Both he and his wife were
zealous and devout members of the Presbyterian church. They
became the parents of four children, Alice, who still resides in
Bath; Fannie, who died in infancy; Edward R., who died at the
age of thirty-one years ; and Dr. Douglass H., of this sketch, who is
the youngest of the number. It should be noted that Edward R.
Smith was an employe in the office of the county c^erk of Steuben
county at the time of his death and that he had devoted consider-
able attention to the study of law, though he had not been ad-
mitted to the bar when he was summoned from the scene of life's
mortal endeavors.

Dr. Douglass H. Smith was graduated in Haverling High
School in Bath as a member of the class of 1898, and after leaving
school he secured employment in a drug store in his native town.
Through the discipline and study gained in this connection he be-
came a licensed pharmacist in 1902. In 1900 he entered the medical
department of the University of Buffalo, in which he completed the
prescribed course and was graduated as a member of the class of
1904, receiving from this well ordered institution his degree of
Doctor of Medicine. After his graduation he passed one year as
interne in the Erie County Hospital, in the city of Buffalo, where
he gained most valuable clinical experience and in 1905, shortly
after the death of his honored father, he engaged in practice in his
native town of Bath, where he has put forth every effort to give

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 589

as eflEective service in his profession, as did his father, to a large
amount of whose practice he has succeeded. The Doctor is a mem-
ber of the Steuben County Medical Society, the New York State
Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was
reared in the faith of the Republican party and has never wavered
in his allegiance thereto and he is affiliated with Bath Lodge No.
112, Free & Accepted Masons. He is a member of the Presbyterian
church and is prominent in connection with the social activities in
the community which has represented his home the greater portion
of the time since he was ushered into the world. He and his sister
still reside in the old homestead, which is a center of refined hospi-
tality.

Charles Henry Christian.— Actively identified with the in-
dustrial interests of Corning as a successful dealer in real estate,
an insurance agent and a loan agent,. Charles Henry Christian has
done much towards promoting the prosperity of the community,
and as an enterprising and public-spirited citizen is held in high
respect and esteem. A native of Steuben county, he was born,
August 14, 1862, in Woodhull, where his father, James W.
Christian, was a pioneer settler.

Locating in Woodhull when there was but one store and one
blacksmith's shop in the place, James W. Christian acquired title
to considerable land, among other tracts owning the present site of
the village of Addison. He continued a resident of Steuben county
until his death, at the age of seventy-six years. He married Lydia
Allen, who lived but fifty-five years. They became the parents of
ten children, nine of whom are now, in 1910, living, Charles Henry
being the eighth child in succession of birth.

Having completed his early studies in the Elkland graded
schools, Charles H. Christian soon began the battle of life on his
own account. Establishing himself in the insurance business in
Corning in 1891, he has carried it on continuously since, each year
enlarging his operations. He deals extensively in real estate, rent-
ing, buying and selling, his straightforward methods securing him
a large patronage.

Mr. Christian married, May 14, 1884, Ida M. Redfield, an
adopted daughter of William H. and Nancy J. Redfield. Their
union has been blessed by the birth of two sons and two daughters,
namely : Cora, wife of Ernest J. Thomas, of Elmira, New York ;
Sayre, in the employ of the Corning Glass Company; Ethel, and
Charles Henry. Politically Mr. Christian is a stanch supporter of
the principles of the Republican party, and fraternally he be-
longs to Corning Tribe, I. 0. R. M.

Leroy McCorn.— As a grape-grower and wine manufacturer
Mr. McCorn has gained a position of distinctive prestige in Steuben
county, where he is associated with his brother, Van Buren, with
headquarters in the thriving little city of Hammondsport. On other
pages of this work is entered a brief review of the career of his

690 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY

brother and in that connection are given adequate data concerning
the family history so that repetition thereof is not demanded at
this juncture.

Leroy MeCorn was born in Tompkins county, New York, on
the 27th of August, 1855, and his early discipline jb connection
with the practical duties and responsibilities of life was that
gained in connection with the work and management of the home
farm. He was afforded the advantages of the public scliools of his
native county and at the age of eighteen years he went to the state
of Illinois, where he remained five years. At the age of twenty-
five years he came to Steuben county and located at Hammondsport,
where he was employed for two years by H. 0. Pairchild, a pros-
perous fruit shipper. Later he secured employment in a vineyard
near Hammondsport and after being thus engaged for one year
he engaged in the growing of grapes on his own responsibility, de-
veloping an excellent vineyard which was the nucleus of the present
fine vineyards owned by the firm of which he is a member. For five
years he gave his attention to the growing and shipping of grapes
and he then initiated the manufacturing of wine on a modest scale.
This branch of his industrial' enterprise has been developed into one
of large proportions and he and his brother are now numbered
among the largest producers of high grade wines in Steuben coun-
ty, besides which he is individually interested in several important
manufacturing and commercial enterprises, his connection with
which indicates conclusively that he is essentially a progressive
business man and one with excellent initiative and administrative
powers.

Mr. McCorn has ever been found ready to give his co-operation
and influence in support of all measures tending to advance the
general welfare of the community and he has been called upon to
serve in various offices of public trust, including that of mayor of
Hammondsport, of which position he was incumbent for three
terms, during which he gave a most admirable administration of the
municipal government. He had previously served as a village
trustee and of this office he is incumbent at the present time, besides
which he is a supervisor of Hammondsport township. He is affiliated
with the lodge of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks at
Hornell and he was reared in the faith of the Presbyterian church ;
Mrs. McCorn is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church.

In the year 1877 was recorded the marriage of Mr. McCorn to
Miss Sabina Bailey, who was born in Steuben county. New York,
on the 8th of April, 1859, and who is a daughter of Charles L. and
Amanda (Ide) Bailey. Mr. Bailey was a representative of one of
the old and honored families of Steuben county, with whose annals
the name became identified in the pioneer days, and he was a
successful farmer and substantial capitalist of this covinty at the
time of his death, which occurred on the 16th of December, 1896,
at which time he was sixty-five years of age. Mrs. Amanda (Ide)
Bailey died in 1865, at the age of twenty-nine years, and besides
Mrs. McCorn she is survived by one son, Lafayette Bailey, who is a

HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 591

successful wine-maker at Hammondsport. Mr. and Mrs. McCorn
became the parents of one son, Charles L., who died at the age of
twenty-two months.

Clyde E. Shults, lawyer and a prominent and influential citi-
zen of Homell, was born at Avoca, Steuben county, April 12, 1876.
Alonzo Shults, his father, was born in the Mohawk Valley, a son
of Josiah Shults, an early settler in his vicinity, who came to
Steuben county in the early fifties, bringing his family and their
few portable things by means of an ox cart. Alonzo came along,
and was himself a pioneer. He married Gertrude Bush, daughter
of Ira Bush. She was born in Steuben county, a child of early
settlers.

Alonzo and Gertrude (Bush) Shults located in the town of
Avoca, later moving to Wayland, where they were both living in
1910. They had two sons, I. J., the eldest, is a traveling salesman,
whose home is in Detroit. Clyde B. was reared on his father's
farm in Wayland and was graduated from the Wayland High
School in 1892 and from the New York State Normal School at
Geneseo, Livingston county, in 1894. He was graduated from the
Buffalo Law School in 1898 and was admitted to the bar in that
city. He located in Homell that year and became a law partner
of John Griffin. He was thus associated with Mr. Griffin about
four years, then entered into partnership with Frank H. Eobinson.
About four years later he began an independent practice, which
has been continued with much success to the present time.

Mr. Shults is secretary and chief active executive officer of the
association having in hand the Hornell Fair. He was elected sec-
retarj' of the Hornellsville Farmers' Club as long ago as 1903.
Politically he affiliates with Republicans. He was for four years
a justice of the peace. In 1902 he was elected secretary of the
Hornell board of education, a position which he has filled with
great credit to the present time. He is a director in the Bank of
Steuben and treasurer of the F. A. Owen Publishing Company, of
Dansville, Livingston county. New York, publishers of "Primary
Plans," "The Normal Instructor" and other educational mag-
azines. His social relations and wide acquaintance are indicated by
the fact that he is a Mason, a member of the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks and of the Knights of the Maccabees. In 1899
he married Miss Anna Sherman, a native of Plainwell, Allegan
county, Michigan, and they have three children, named here in the
order of their birth, Everett, Angeline and Sherman Shults. Enough
has been said of Mr. Shults' business connections to give ground
for the inference that he is a man of great public spirit, ready at all
times to entertain any proposition for the advancement of his city
and county, eager to do all in his power to promote it if it appeals
to him as practical and far-reaching. All in all he is a citizen of
whom Homell is proud.

593 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

W. R. Guile.— Way land has no more representative business
man than W. R. Guile, the secretary and general manager of the
Wayland Canning Company. He is a progressive business man,
and under his fostering care and watchful eye the canning industry
with which he is associated has been brought to a successful issue,
and it adds much to the wealth and enterprise of both town and
county. The factory was first established in 1899 under the man-
agement of a stock company, co-operative in effect, but its system
and working order was changed in 1901. Its first directors were
Julian Morris, W. R. Guile, C. P. Newfang, Prank Hartz, P. H.
Zimmerman, A. L. Huber and George E. Whitman, and its officers
were as follows: President, P. H. Zimmerman; Vice-President, A.
L. Huber; Treasurer, Julian A. Morris; and Secretary, W. R.
Guile. Under this management the plant was put in operation on
the 1st of October, 1899, with about thirty-five employes, but at
the end of two years the enterprise proved a failure and a reorgani-
zation was necessary, which took place in 1901. The company was
then organized on a new basis, with a directorate as follows : Julian
A. Morris, P. H. Zimmerman, C. S. Avery, W. R. Guile, George
E. Whitman, C. P. Newfang and J. Kimmel, while the officers elect-
ed were: P. H. Zimmerman, President; C. S. Avery, Vice-presi-
dent ; Julian A. Morris, Treasurer ; and W. R. Guile, Secretary. P.
H. Zimmerman resigned the presidency in 1904 and was succeeded
by John Kimmel, and John A. Bennett was elected to the vice-
presidency on the 6th of January, 1905, to fiU the vacancy caused
by the death of C. S. Avery. The present plant of the Wayland
Canning Company occupies four acres of ground, the buildings are
large and commodious, fitted with modern machinery for the ac-
complishment of their growing business, and three steam engines,
ranging from eighty-five to thirty and fifteen horse-power, are
used, besides the electric forty horse-power from the city, and all
these are called into active service during the canning season. One
hundred and fifteen operatives are employed. The plant is prov-
ing a great acquisition to Wayland 's commercial industry, and
directed by its present board of substantial and influential business
men it is destined to attain to still greater proportions. In addition
to their regular canning business they have six silos, which re-
ceive and preserve the husks and offal from the factory, and the
product finds a ready market in the farmers for stock feeding pur-
poses. The plant is situated on the line of the Erie Railroad.

W. R. Guile, the secretary and general manager of the Way-
land Canning Company, has been a resident of Wayland during the
past sixteen years, and during twelve years of that time he has
served on the city's school board and at the same time was the
trustee of the borough. But he is a native son of Livingston coun-
ty. New York, born September 12, 1855, and he was reared and
educated there and yet owns the old Guile homestead of eighty-
five acres. The family have for generations been loyal citizens of
the old Empire state. W. R. Guile wedded ]\Iiss Linda Robinson
in 1878, and their three children are Lucinda H., Florence B. and

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Orton R. He is a worthy member and one of the board of trus-
tees of the United Evangelical church, and is also affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity in Wayland.

Charles Cadogan.— Among the older residents of Hornell,
Steuben county, New York, who have not retired from active busi-
ness life is Charles Cadogan, at the present time incumbent of the
responsible position of president of the Citizens' National Bank.
As the head of this popular financial institution he has done much
to further its stability and to increase its scope of operation.

Charles Cadogan is a native of Steuben county and was born
at Canisteo September 10, 1838, a son of Abram and Jennie (Whit-
wood) Cadogan, the former of whom was born in Cortland county,
New York, and the latter in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Mr.
and Mrs. Cadogan became the parents of four children— two boys
and two girls— and of the number Charles was the second in order
of birth. During the major portion of his active business career
the father was engaged in building operations, and both he and
his wife are now deceased, the former having been summoned to
eternal rest in 1892 and the latter having passed away in 1889.

Mr. Cadogan completed the curriculum of the common schools
of his native town and he initiated his independent business career
as a clerk in the grocery establishment of Ely & Brown, located at
the corner of Broad and Main streets, Hornell. Later he held the
position of yard master for the Brie Railroad Company, with
headquarters in Hornell, for a period of twelve years. In the
autumn of 1868 he entered into a partnership alliance with J. W.
Nicholson and they succeeded to the business established by Ely &
Brown. For nearly a score of years the firm of Cadogan & Nichol-
son carried on a successful mercantile enterprise and it rapidly
gained precedence and distinctive prestige as one of the leading
establishments of its kind in the county. In 1887 Mr. Cadogan
became interested in the banking business and in October of that
year he was elected president of the Citizens' National Bank, as
already noted. The other officers of the bank are: J. M. Finch,
vice-president; and J. E. B. Santee, cashier. The bank was incor-
porated under the laws of the state in 1882, with a capital stock
of $100,000.00, its surplus and undivided profits amount to
$52,000.00 and its deposits aggregate .$565,000.00. Mr. Cadogan
has gained recognition as one of the conservative business men of
the county and he has a widespread reputation for fair and honor-
able methods in all business transactions. He is a Republican in
his political proclivities, warmly advocating the party principles,
although he is not an active politician. He has devoted himself
assiduously to his business interests and has not sought political
office. He holds membership in the Universalist church, to whose
charities and benevolences he has contributed in generous measure.
As a man he is thoroughly conscientious, of undoubted integrity,
affable and courteous in manner.

596 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY

In 1859 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cadogan to Miss
Corinne Sweetland, who was born and reared in Livingston county,
and who is a daughter of David and Amanda Sweetland, long
citizens of Hornell. Mr. and Mrs. Cadogan have five children,
concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated,—
Mary is the wife of F. E. Williams and resides at Hornell; Anna
C. married C. W. Etz, who is cashier in the Steuben Bank at
Hornell.; Bertha R. remains at the paternal home; Gertrude is the
wife of J. H. Wynne and they reside in New York City ; and Lucy
remains at home. Mr. and Mrs. Cadogan reside at 103 Genesee
street, Hornell.

John F. Pakkhurst.— One of the distinguished citizens of
Steuben county was the late Judge John Foster Parkhurst, who
was numbered among the representative legists and jurists of the
state and who was a member of its supreme court at the time of his
death, which occurred at his home in the city of Bath on the 21st
of February, 1906. He was a man of scholarly attainments and
one whose character was moulded on a large and generous scale.
His course was guided on a lofty plane of integrity and honor, he
viewed all things in their correct proportions, and an exalted de-
votion to duty was emphasized in every stage of his long and use-
ful career, so that he well merited the implicit confidence and
esteem in which he was held by his fellow men.

John Foster Parkhurst was born at Wellsboro, Tioga county,
Pennsylvania, on the 21st of February, 1843, and was a scion of
distinguished Colonial families of our great American republic.
George Parkhurst, the founder of the family in America, came
from England to the New World in 1635 and established his
home in Watertown, Middlesex county, Massachusetts. John Park-
hurst, son of Josiah Parkhurst, Jr., and grandfather of the sub-
ject of this memoir, was born in Massachusetts on the 2d of May,
1760. In 1777 he manifested his intrinsic loyalty and patriotism
by enlisting for service in the Continental line in the war of the
Revolution. He was first assigned to duty in guarding army
stores at Bast Sudbury, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, and in
April, 1878, he enlisted in Captain Holmes' company of the regi-
ment commanded by Colonel Jonathan Reed. This was the first
regiment assigned to duty in guarding British prisoners of war.
John Parkhurst received his honorable discharge on the 4th of July,
1778, and he then re-enlisted, for a term of six weeks, in a company
commanded by Captain Amos Perry. In July, 1780, he enlisted in
Captain McFarland's company of Colonel Harris' regiment, with
which he served in Rhode Island, and he received his final dis-
charge on the 30th of October, 1780.

Judge Parkhurst was a son of Dr. Curtis and Jane Ann (Kas-
son) Parkhurst, the former of whom was born at Marlborough,
New Hampshire, on the 2d of July, 1794, and the latter of whom
was born at North Adams, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, on

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the 5th of April, 1811. The parents passed the closing years of
their lives at Lavvreneeville, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, where
the father died on the 5th of June, 1872, and the mother on the
20th of October, 1887. Dr. Curtis Parkhurst was a physician and
surgeon of splendid ability, and during the many years of his de-
votion to the work of his profession he maintained his home at
Lawrenceville, where his name is held in affectionate memory.
He was graduated in the Medical school of Dartmouth College
as a member of the class of 1819. In 1828-9 he represented Brad-
ford and Tioga counties in the state legislature, as did he also in
1830, after the consolidation of the two counties into one district.
In 1840 he was elected sheriff to Tioga county, and in this office
he served from 1841 to 1844. On the 15th of March, 1847, the
governor of Pennsylvania appointed him associate judge of the
court of common pleas of Tioga county, for a term of five years,
and he made an admirable record on the bench, having been a
man of broad mental ken, mature judgment and excellent knowl-
edge of law. He was an influential and honored citizen and did
much to further the progress of his home county and state. He
was one of the prime factors in effecting the construction of Tioga
Railroad from Corning, New York, to Blossburg, Tioga county,
Pennsylvania.

Alvin Hall, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Jane Ann (Kasson)
Parkhurst, was a loyal soldier of the Continental forces in the war
of the Revolution, in which he served at Fort Champlain in 1777.
He enlisted for a second term and in 1780 he took part in the bat-
tle of Stone Arabia, New York, in which engagement his colonel
and forty members of his regiment were killed.

Judge Parkhurst was the fifth in order of birth in a family of
eight children, and he was afforded the advantages of a home of
marked culture and refinement. He attended the schools of
Lawrenceville and thereafter continued his studies under the direc-
tion of a private tutor. In 1863 he came to Bath, Steuben county,
where he began reading law under the effective preceptorship of
Judge Guy Humphreys McMaster, one of whose daughters he later
married. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar and he forthwith en-
gaged in the general practice of his profession at Bath, where in
1872 he formed a partnership with his honored preceptor. Judge
McMaster, under the firm name of McMaster & Parkhurst. This
admirable professional alliance. continued without interruption un-
til the death of Judge McMaster, to whom an individual memoir
is dedicated on other pages of this work, and thereafter Judge
Parkhurst continued in individual practice, retaining a large and
representative clientage. In 1897 Governor Black appointed him
judge of the state court of claims, and this position he retained
until 1901, when he was appointed to the bench of the supreme
court of the state, for the seventh judicial district. In 1902 he was
elected to this same high office, of which he continued incumbent
until his death. The profundity of his legal knowledge and the

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eminently judicial east of his mind made him specially strong as
a jurist, and upon the supreme bench he rounded out a career of
signal honor and distinction.

In politics Judge Parkhurst accorded an unwavering al-
legiance to the Republican party, and he was an effective exponent
of its principles and policies. From 1889 until 1902 he was chair-
man of the Republican committee of Steuben county, and from
1889 until his appointment to the supreme bench he served as a
member of the Republican state central committee of New York.
He was a delegate to the national conventions of his party in 1888,
1892 and 1896, and was one of its recognized leaders in his section
of the state. As editor of the Steuben Courier from 1890 until he
was summoned from the scene of life's mortal endeavors he made
that paper an effective exponent of the cause of the Republican
party and of the general interests of the community. He wielded
much influence in public affairs and also in connection with material
enterprises of important order. He was vice-president of the
Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank of Bath and vice-president of the
Bath & Hammondsport Railroad Company. In 1894 he was a
delegate from the state at large to the state constitutional conven-
tion, in which he served as a member of the judiciary and suf-
frage committees and as chairman of the committee on county,
township and village offices. He was a zealous member of the
Presbyterian church, as is also his widow, and was affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity and the Empire State Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution. Judge Parkhurst had traveled ex-
tensively in Europe and throughout the United States, and he
profited duly by the broadening influences of such diversion. His
life was guided on the loftiest plane of integrity and honor and
he brought to bear the splendid equipment of a broad intellectual-
ity and high purpose in all the relations of life, so that his career
offers both lesson and incentive.

On the 22d of July, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of
Judge Parkhurst to Miss Alice A. McMaster, daughter of the late
Judge Guy H. McMaster, of whom individual mention is made
elsewhere in this volume. Of this union were born two children,—
Juliet, who died at the age of eighteen months, and Guy McMaster
Parkhurst, who is a member of the class of 1912 in Cornell Univer-
sity, at Ithaca, New York. Mrs. Parkhurst is a prominent and
valued factor in connection with the best social activities of her
home city, and her home has long been a center of gracious hospi-
tality.

George W. Johnson.— Noteworthy not only as a life-long resi-
dent of Steuben county, and the son of a life-long resident of this
part of the Empire state, but as one who has performed his full
share in advancing the agricultural and industrial prosperity of
his community is George W. Johnson, a son of Silas H. Johnson,
born in Howard, November 29, 1848.

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Born and brought up in Yates county. New York, Silas H.
Johnson came to Steuben county in 1843. The following two years
he taught school in Howard. He married Adelia Bennett, Septem-
ber 1, 1847. She was the daughter of Benjamin Bennett, one of
the first settlers in Howard. They resided for many years on a
farm in Howard, and late in life moved to Hornell. Silas H. John-
son died August 7, 1900. His wife survived him but four days.
They reared a family of five children: George W. Johnson (sub-
ject of this sketch), Frances A., widow of Byron Kysor, Launa
M., who died December 16, 1871, in the twentieth year of her
age; Clymenia, wife of Daniel S. Kysor of Galesburg, Illinois,
and Fred A., who was born May 10, 1861, and died May 1, 1889,
unmarried.

George AY. Johnson located in Fremont soon after his mar-
riage to Berniee Jane Kysor, and successfully engaged in general
farming until 1900, when he moved to the city. He takes an ac-
tive and intelligent interest in public affairs and is a member of
the Hornell Lodge No. 44 of F. & A. U.

Mr. Johnson married in 1872, Berniee Jane Kysor who was
born August 22, 1847, at "VVoodsville, Town of Sparta, Livingston
county. New York. Her father, Archibald Kysor, was born in
1805. He was a millwright by trade and he built the J. C. Will-
iams' mill at Dansville; the Ullyette Mill at Woodsville; the Alley
Mill at Howard; the Alley i\Iill at Hornell, and a large sawmill at
White Hall, Michigan, and many others. He shipped much of his
flour to Albany, by the old Erie Canal. He married Calista H.
Sill, and eight children were bom to them.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are the parents of three children, name-
ly: Kittie Launa, Adelia Augusta and Jessie Benton.

MoRTiMEK W. Read is one of the honored and useful citizens of
Wheeler, Steuben county. New York. This well-known farmer and
jobber was born March 16, 1840, on the old Darius Read farm in
Urbana, this county. This Darius Read, grandfather of the sub-
ject, when a boy of twelve years came with his father from Massa-
chusetts to Urbana, and near that point the elder gentleman took
up a claim of two hundred and five acres of land, which he cleared
from the forest and converted into a home for his family. There
four generations of the family lived, the great-grandfather and
grandfather, as above mentioned, and the subject and his father,
both of whom were born on this estate. The father, Thomas M.
Read, was born in the old house erected by his forbears and its
ancient walls were the first scene upon which the young eyes of
Mortimer W. opened. Thomas M. Read married Hannah Hill and
became the father of four children and subsequently went west
locating at Grand Rapids in the state of Michigan, and working at
his trades, carpentering and blacksmithing. His wife, who was
a native of Urbana, died October 4, 1854, at the age of thirty-
nine years. Thomas M. Read was a veteran of the Civil war in

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which he gave valiant service, and he spent his last days in the
Soldiers' Home at Dayton, Ohio, his demise occurring there m 1892
at the age of sixty-nine years. Of the four children born to this
hero of the '60s Mortimer W. is the only one who survives.

Mr. Read at a very early age began to make his own way in
the world, and not only earned his own living, but also took care of
his youngest brother, who was a cripple. He had no school educa-
tion and at his first enlistment (for he, as well as his father,
offered his services in defense of the union) he could neither write,
nor read writing, but could read print. His youth was shadowed
by the lowering Civil war cloud and very early in that tragic con-
flict, April 22, 1861, he enlisted at Bath, New York, for two years
as a private in Company A, Twenty-third Regiment, ■ New York
Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Barney A. Hoffman and with
his command joined the Army of the Potomac. His faithfulness
and efficiency were recognized and in 1862 he was promoted to
second sergeant and acted as orderly sergeant until discharged
May 12, 1863, when his term expired. He re-enlisted August 24,

1864, in the One Hundred and Eighty-ninth Regiment, New York
Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the
war. He was orderly sergeant of his company, C, when the com-
pany was formed and he was promoted to second lieutenant. While
with both regiments he was in every march, battle and skirmish in
which they participated, and in his last service was offered promo-
tion to major and lieutenant colonel, but refused both, since ac-
cepting these offices meant going into another regiment than the
one to whose members and officers he was so loyally attached.
During his service with the first named regiment he much improved
his education, under the tutelage of his officer, Captain Theodore
Schlick, learning to write and figure by helping to keep the com-
pany's books. After being mustered out the second time, in June,

1865, he returned to his home in Steuben county, where he has
since lived. "While he has worked at different trades, his life has
been spent chiefly as a farmer, the scene of his latter operations
being in Wheeler township, where he has a farm and vineyard.
Since 1906 he has been practically retired from active work.

Mr. Reed married Miss Axie Angel, daughter of Alonzo D.
and Rachel (Pickett) Angel, of Wheeler, Steuben county, and to
them have been given five sons and five daughters, one being de-
ceased. Those living are : Rachel, wife of William Foster ; Minnie,
wife of Frank Bates; Hannah, wife of Albert Grants; Diantha,
wife of A. LaRew, Jr.; Edwin, who married Miss E. M. Crants;
Cloa, wife of C. Young ; and Ely and Mortimer, Jr., at home. Of
those married all are residents of Mitchellville, Steuben county,
except Edwin, who lives on a farm in Bath township, this county;
and at this writing the grandchildren in the family number eleven.
He had six great-grandchildren, but only one is now living.

Mr. Read has membership in the post at Bath of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and finds great pleasure in continuing the
pleasant relations with the comrades of other days.

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Hon. James B. Day, of Hornell, was born in Union, Broome
county, New York, March 29, 1847. Abram Day, his father, was
a native of Owego, Tioga county. New York, by trade a tailor. He
lived and died there, passing away at about the age of forty-
seven years, and the . family records show that he was a lineal
descendant of one of two brothers from Scotland who came early
to the colonies, locating, the one in New York, the other in Connec-
ticut. Abram Day married Gertrude Stillman, of German extrac-
tion, but a native of the state of New York, who was about fifty
years old when she died. She bore her husband a daughter and
two sons. All of these children are living. Elias S. is a citizen of
Akron, Ohio. Mary is the widow of Charles Cooper, of Bingham-
ton. New York. The subject of this notice was the last born of
the three. He was reared and educated at Binghamton, and in
1866, when he was about nineteen years old, went to New York
city, where he was for eight years connected with the municipal
police department. In 1874 he took up his residence in Hornells-
ville, engaging in the wholesale wine and liquor business, and he
has continued in that branch of trade ever since with much success.

Almost ever since Mr. Day came to Hornellsville he has been
active in the local polities of that village and of Hornell, as well
as in the polities of his state and of the nation at large. He was
the last president of the village of Hornellsville and the first mayor
of the city of Hornell, filling the office two successive terms. For
five years he was a Democratic state committeeman, and as a mem-
ber of the national electoral college from New York, he voted for
Mr. Cleveland for the office of president of the United States.
Since then he has sought so far as has been possible to withdraw
from active participation in political work.

ilr. Day has been interested, directly and indirectly, with many
important enterprises. As a stockholder and otherwise he has had
to do with some of the leading interests of the village and city.
In the street railway system of the city he is especially interested,
and he is the owner of much valuable real estate. He is a thirty-sec-
ond degree Mason, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Or-
der of Elks (Lodge 346 of Hornell), and is identified with the
Maennerchoer of the city. He married, in 1872, Jennie L. Twadell
and they have three children. He has been a resident of the place,
village and city for thirty-six years, and during that long period has
been one of the best friends that it has had, always contributing
liberally toward its advancement in every way that has appealed to
him as practical and likely to prove efficient.

John B. Vogt, Je.— One of the aggressive business men and
loyal and public-spirited citizens of the village of Wayland is Mr.
Vogt, who is here incumbent of the position of manager of the
Schwarzenbach Brewery, which is owned and operated by the Hor-
nell Brewing Company, of Hornell, this state. He is a represen-
tative of the third generation of the Vogt family in Steuben county.

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where his paternal grandfather located upon his immigration from
Germany and where this worthy ancestor secured a tract of la ad
and developed a productive farm, this continuing to be his home
until the close of his life.

John Bernard Vogt, Jr., was born in Wayland township, on
the 12th of February, 1878, and is a son of John B. and Barbara
(Shuster) Vogt, both of whom now reside in Spring Water town-
ship, Livingston county, where the father is a prosperous farmer
and stock-grower. Of the children seven sons and three daughters
are now living: Clara, is the wife of J. Cramer, a farmer of
Wayland township; George, is engaged in the merchandise busi-
ness in Wayland; John B., Jr., is the immediate subject of this
sketch ; Frank Meton, is identified with the brewing business under
the direction of his brother ; Peter resides on the home farm ; Will-
iam, is a resident of Atlanta, this county; and Anna, Herman and
Irene, remain at the parental home. It may be noted that Peter
was a twin of Rosa and that the latter died in infancy, as did also
Henry, who was a twin brother of William. John B. Vogt, Jr.,
is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early
educational discipline and he continued to be identified with the
work of the home farm until he had attained to his legal majority
when, in 1899, he became associated with a partner and they acted
as agents for a Rochester brewery, whose products they distributed
in Steuben county and adjacent sections. Mr. Vogt continued to be
thus engaged until 1905, on April 3d of which year, he assumed
his present position as general manager of the Schwarzenbach
Brewery of the Hornell Brewing Company, at Wayland. He has
since assumed charge also of the company at Dansville and Cohoc-
ton and he now has charge of the distribution of the products of the
company for the entire district tributary to these three towns.

Mr. Vogt is uncomprising in his allegiance to the Democratic
party and he has been an active worker in its local ranks. Both he
and his wife are communicants of St. Joseph's Catholic church in
Wayland, where he also holds membership in the local organization
of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association.

On the 18th of June, 1907, Mr. Vogt was united in marriage
to Miss Julia Sauerlier, who was born on the 21st of March, 1880,
and who is a daughter of Albert and Mary (Meyers) Sauerlier.
Mr. and Mrs. Vogt have no children.

0. F. KiEFEE is the secretary and manager of the Wayland
Cement Works at Wayland, and is one of the progressive and in-
fluential men of the city. The cement plant adds much to the
wealth and business enterprise of Wayland. It was organized in
1883, as the Thomas Millen and Sons Cement Works, and in 1901
thename was changed to that of Thomas Millen and Company,
while in 1909 it underwent another change and has since been
known as the Wayland Portland Cement Company. The president
of the company is John Kimmel, the vice-president, F. K. Smith,

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 603

the treasurer, F. C. Lander and the secretary and manager, 0. F.
Kief er. The ground of the works cover a space of two hundred and
three acres, while their marl bed covers one hundred acres and
reaches a depth of twenty-four feet. The plant furnishes em-
ployment to fifty-three operatives, and the Erie, D. L. and W. and
the Shawnee Railroads furnish it with splendid shipping facilities.
The secretary and manager of the Wayland Cement Works
was born at Cohocton, New York, February 4, 1884, and is a gradu-
ate of the high school of his native town with the class of 1900 and
of the Rochester Business Institute with the class of 1901. Since
then he has been a resident of Wayland. He is the sixth of the
eleven children born to Charles and Lena (Wagner) Kiefer, who
emigrated from their native Germany to America in 1863 and lo-
cated in Rochester, moving from there in 1880 to Cohocton in
Steuben county. Charles Kiefer is a miller and a first class me-
chanic, and both he and his wife are living. 0. F. Kiefer after com-
ing to Wayland entered the employ of N. Kimmel and Sons as a
bookkeeper in their hardware store, and after three years there he
became associated with the Wayland Cement Works. During the
five years which he has served the corporation as its secretary and
general manager he has in many ways increased its value, and he is
prominently numbered with this coterie of substantial business men.
In 1905 he was married to Miss Florence, a daughter of L. A.
Schwan, and a son, Orrin 0., has been born to them.

W. W. Babcock.— Among the prominent citizens of Hornells-
ville, New York, is W. W. Babcock, who takes a prominent part in
public affairs and is well established in business. Mr. Babcock was
born in- the town of Fremont, four miles from his present resi-
dence. May 21, 1849, and is a son of James Ross Babcock. James
R. Babcock came to Steuben county with his father, James Bab-
cock, when he was eighteen years of age. The latter settled on
the Cohocton river and later moved to Buffalo, when it was only
a village. James Ross Babcock lived for some time in Cohocton,
Ohio, but returned to Steuben county and engaged in business as
a contractor and builder, as well as a farmer. He erected a large
number of buildings in the county and lived on his farm in Fre-
mont until eighty years of age. He took an active part in local
polities and was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. When he located on his farm there was but two acres of
land cleared and he continued the work of clearing and improving
it. He owned one hundred and thirty acres. He was of English
descent. '■'■'-' r'|

James R. Babcock married Ruth Phillips, a native also of
Cohocton and she lived to be eighty-five years of age. They were
among the early settlers of Steuben county and were very well
known. They had six children, of whom five reached maturity.
All were born in Steuben county, and W. W. is the oldest son
and third child.

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The boyhood days of W. W. Babcock were spent in his native
place and he was educated in the public schools. He was reared
on a farm and carried on his farm in young manhood. When he
started business on his own account he began dealing in monu-
ments, working first as traveling salesman for the Field & Alden
Granite Company, with whom he remained fourteen years, when
he left their employ to engage in business on his own account at
his present location. He is an expert in his line, having been en-
gaged in the business as salesman and proprietor about thirty-two
years. He has been very successful in establishing himself in the
esteem and confidence of the people of his vicinity, and besides
this business owns a farm of one hundred and twelve acres near
by, which is mostly devoted to grain. He rents this land to good
advantage.

Mr. Babcock married December 29, 1870, Electa H. Helmer,
daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Hannah) Helmer, who was born
also in Fremont. Her parents were early settlers of the county and
came from Herkimer, New York. Mr. Babcock has two children
living : Claud F., a merchant of Hornellsville, and Lela, living at
home, supervisor of music in the public schools of the city. One
son, Hermie, died at the age of eight years.

Mr. Babcock is a member of the I. 0. 0. F., and is very active
in church work, having been a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal
church for about fifteen years. He has been a lifelong Republican
and has taken great interest in public and political affairs, and has
held various offices. He has served as town clerk and commissioner
of highways, has been postmaster of Fremont and is now a
member of the board of public works of Homell. He has always
supported every cause which he considered for the benefit and
welfare of the community, and is looked upon with great respect
by all who know him. About 1875, while Mr. Babcock was carrying
on his farm, lie lost his left arm in a threshing machine. However,
in spite of this misfortune he continues in excellent health and
is as much interested as ever in matters of public moment.

William R. Sutton, musician and opera house manager, Bath,
Steuben county, New York, was born at Avoca, that county, August
10, 1869, a son of George W. and Louisa (Wells) Sutton, natives
of Ontario county. With the exception of one half brother, who is
living at Naples, New York, he is the only survivor of his family,
once well known not only at home but throughout the country
wherever good music was appreciated. He attended school at
Wallace, near Avoca, till he was seventeen years old and later was
for years a member of the Sutton family band, an organization
which traveled extensively and met with much success. It was com-
posed entirely of members of the Sutton family and was under the
leadership of M. C. Sutton, and George W. Sutton was in active
service as a bandmaster twenty-two years.

Returning to Bath Mr. Sutton became connected with the
Soldiers' Home Band, of which he was later leader. He was the

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 605

leader for a time also of the Forty-Seventh Separate Company
Band. In 1909 W. R. Sutton leased the Casino opera house at
Bath, one of the best establishments of its class in this part of the
state, seating five hundred and fifty persons and giving employ-
ment to seven, of which he is making a business success.

Mr. Sutton is a member of the Bath lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and has passed all its chairs as well as
those of the Encampment and he represented his home lodge in
the Grand Lodge of the state. He is identified with the order of
Maccabees and is a Red Man and a member of the order of Sons
of Veterans. He married Miss Anna R. Murphy, a native of
Bristol, England, and a daughter of William and Anna (Howell)
Murphy, who brought her to the United States when she was about
five years old. Her parents died at Penn Yan, Yates county, where
her father was a merchant. Mrs. Sutton has borne her husband
two daughters— Marie V., a graduate of the schools of Bath, and
Florence Cherry, who was graduated from the Bath high school
and is a student at the New York State Normal School at Syracuse,
where she was admitted on a scholarship which she won in fair
competition.

Mr. Sutton is a man of much public spirit who does his full
share in promoting the public welfare and who is confidently looked
upon by his fellow citizens for help when it is necessary for some
one to take the lead in a movement for the general advancement of
the town.

John H. Laerison.— The great basic industry of agriculture
in Steuben county has as one of its most progressive representatives
John H. Larrison, who is owner of the well improved landed es-
tate of two hundred and eighty-five acres, eligibly located in Caton
township and devoted to diversified agriculture and stock-growing.
Mr. Larrison is one of those sturdy citizens who has realized the
possibilities of large and definite success in connection with the
farming enterprise and his life has been one of action, as shown
in his prominence in his chosen field of endeavor. He is one of the
substantial and honored citizens of Steuben county, is the largest
land holder of Caton township and is a member of the directorate
of the Farmers' Alliance & Co-operative Insurance Company, one
of the important corporations of this county in this section of the

John H. Larrison reverts to the fine old Keystone state as the
place of his nativity. He was born in Ridgbury township, Brad-
ford county, Pennsylvania, on the 17th of March, 1853, and is a
son of Oscar and Dora (Edgerton) Larrison. Oscar Larrison was
born near Dieget Hollow, in Jackson township, Tioga county,
Pennsylvania, on the 6th of February, 1820, and was a son of John
Larrison, who was born in Dryden, Tompkins county. New York,
and whose wife, Mary (Huntley) Larrison was born June 17,
1805. John Larrison was a son of Theodore Larrison, who was

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born on the 26th of August, 1773, and whose wife, Elizabeth Up-
dike, was born on the 29th of July, 1785 ; their marriage was solem-
nized on the 27th of November, 1802, and they became the parents
of four children : Anna, Jacob, John and Lewis. John and Mary
(Huntley) Larrison became the parents of six sons,— Theodore,
Oscar, Lewis, Levi, Horace and David. Oscar and Dora (Edger-
ton) Larrison became the parents of four children, of whom John
H., of this review, is the eldest ; Amanda is the wife of George T.
Davenport ; Florence is deceased ; and Ethel unmarried.

John H. Larrison was reared to the sturdy discipline of the
home farm and his early educational advantages were those af-
forded in the public schools of his native township. He continued
to be associated in the work and management of the home farm
until he had attained to the age of twenty-five years, when he
married and initiated his independent career. In 1878, shortly
after his marriage, he located upon his present fine homestead
where he has continued to reside during the long intervening years
and where he has made improvements that have given the place
precedence as one of the finest rural estates in Steuben county.
As a citizen Mr. Larrison has been essentially progressive and
public-spirited and he has been called upon to serve in various local
offices of public trust. His political allegiance is given to the
Republican party. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers'
Alliance & Co-operative Insurance Company and has been a mem-
ber of its board of directors since 1894. He is known as a busi-
ness man of marked ability and in the handling of his various in-
terests his discrimination and progressive ideas have brought to
him the most generous measure of success, the while he has main-
tained a strong hold upon popular confidence and good will.

On the 6tli of March, 1878, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Larrison to Miss Julia W. Soule, who was born in Tioga coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, on the 26th of May, 1859, and who is a daughter
of Seneca Soule, who was born in Onondaga county, New York,
being a representative of one of the pioneer families of that sec-
tion of the Empire state. In conclusion of this brief sketch of one
of the sterling citizens of Steuben county is entered brief record
concerning his children, — May, who was born on the 23d of De-
cember, 1878, is the wife of James H. McLaughlin ; Roland S., was
born on the 30th of April, 1880 ; Bertha, who was born on the 23d
of January, 1883, is the wife of John Hopkins; Liston E., was
born on the 23d of May, 1886 ; Ruth E., born on the 23d of Decem-
ber, 1888; Irene B., born on the 31st of January, 1890; Florence
died at the age of four years ; Frank C. was bom July 16, 1894 ;
Millicent, October 31, 1897 ; and Oscar C, born in 1901.

William Wallace Oecutt, a prominent attorney of Bath, New
York, who makes a specialty of pensions, was born in Lacona, New
York, April 15, 1843, son of Lorenzo and Julia N. (Ward) Orcutt,
the former a native of Lacona also.

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After acquiring his education in the public schools of Lacona,
William W. Orcutt took up the trade of shoemaker, which he
learned and followed until 1890, when he removed to Bath. Mean-
while he had been studying law and upon coming to Bath engaged
in practice as an attorney. He has met with pleasing success and
has gained the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens. His
work in the line of pensions has been especially successful.

Mr. Orcutt served in the Civil war as a member of Company
H, One Hundred Eighty-ninth Volunteer Infantry, of New York,
and participated in several important engagements. He belongs
to the Grand Army of the Republic and is prominent in the or-
der. Politically he is a Republican. He is actively interested in
public affairs and is highly esteemed for his public spirit and for
the valuable service he rendered as a soldier. He is the friend of
progress and advancement and has a large circle of friends.

Mr. Orcutt married Melinda J. Buckingham, who was born at
Marshall, Michigan, August 5, 1847. The following children have
been born to them: Effie Florence, wife of B. DeGroat, a pho-
tographer of Bath ; John Lorenzo, of Chicago, married Lena Hunn,
and they have one child— Tracy; Julia Ward, married William
Reynolds, and is now a widow, having two children— Harold and
Hobart; Daniel Jasper, a clerk in the employ of the government,
at Washington, D. C, married Lila Lewis; William Wallace, Jr.,
of Buffalo, New York; and Edith and Alice L., twins, the former
at home and the latter married F. Dudley, a contractor of Bath,
and they have one child— Edith.

Benjamin Jacob Wright, an influential lawyer and justice of
the peace, at Hammondsport, New York, was born at Hammonds-
port, on the 8th of August, 1852, and is a son of John and Lucy
(Strong) Wright. The father was born at Naas, county Kildare,
Ireland, whence, in company with his wife and family, he immi-
grated to America about 1850. On landing at Quebec, they made
their way to Albany and thence to Hammondsport by canal. Mr.
Wright was a gardener by trade, having served a seven years' ap-
prenticeship and having worked as a journeyman in his native land.
On his arrival in Steuben county, he early gave his attention to
grape-culture and continued to be identified with that line of enter-
prise until his death, which occurred in 1879, at the age of sixty-
six years. Mrs. Wright's father was Joseph Strong, who was high
sheriff of county Kildare, Ireland, for fifty-four years. Mr. Strong
married a Miss Dunbar and they passed their entire lives in Ireland.
Mrs. Wright survives her honored husband and is now residing at
Hammondsport, aged eighty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. Wright be-
came the parents of thirteen children, three of whom are now liv-
ing,— Lucy, who is the wife of Judge HoUis; Mary, who married
W. n. Edwards, resides at Hammondsport; and Benjamin J., the
immediate subject of this review.

Benjamin J. Wright completed the curriculum of the public
schools of Hammondsport, was graduated in the home high school

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and in the Hammondsport Academy. Thereafter he began the read-
ing of law in the office of his brother, William W. Wright, and he
was admitted to the bar of the state. After hi? marriage, in 1876,
he turned his attention to farming and followed that vocation for
a period of twelve years, at the expiration of which he established
his home in Hammondsport and entered upon the practice of his
profession. In 1888 he was elected justice of the peace and he has
acted in that capacity during the long intervening years to the
present time. He has won a creditable success as a legal practi-
tioner and enjoys the distinction of being the oldest lawyer in point
of continuous practice in the northern part of Steuben county. In
1884 he became interested in viticulture and has made a big success
of the grape-growing industry. Since 1890 he has devoted consider-
able attention to a milling enterprise and he has been identified with
various other business aft'airs of broad scope and importance.

In a political way Mr. Wright is an active Republican, zealous
for the success of his party and its principles and nominees. He
has held important places on the Republican county committee and
he has been sent as a delegate to several important party conven-
tions. For twenty-two yeai's, by repeated re-election, he has held
the office of justice of the peace. In a fraternal way he is affiliated
with various representative organizations and both he and his wife
are devout communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church, to
whose charitable institutions he has been a most generous contribu-
tor. Mr. Wright's brother John was a gallant soldier in the Civil
war. He enlisted in Company I, Thirty-fourth New York Volun-
teer Infantry and saw much active service until his death, at Fort-
ress Monroe, after one year in the army. Another brother, Will-
iam W. Wright, enlisted in Company F, Seventy-eighth New York
Volunteer Infantry, in February, 1862. He served under Sher-
man and was promoted to a captaincy. After valiant and faithful
service until the end of the war, he was mustered out in North
Carolina. He immediately returned to Hammondsport, where he
practiced law during the remainder of his active business career.

In May, 1876, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wright to
Miss Mary Irene McLean, who passed to eternal rest in 1895, at the
age of forty-two years. She was a daughter of George and Cather-
ine (Riley) McLean, of Prattsburg. George McLean was a lawyer
of note in Steuben county and he was a man of the utmost public
loyalty and usefulness. Mr. and Mrs. Wright had seven children,
five of whom are deceased. Of those living, — Nancy is manager of
the Bell telephone office at Hammondsport : Preston, a printer, who
resides at Geneva married Esther Sponable and they have a
daughter, Grace Martha, seven years of age.

Maurice A. Hoyt, Hammondsport 's popular druggist, is a son
of Warren J. Hoyt. The latter was born in Litchfield county
Connecticut, a son of Ira Hoyt, also a native of the Nutmeg
state. He was a prosperous farmer and was gathered to his

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fathers in the years 1862, his years numbering seventy-seven. His
wife, Anna (Shove) Hoyt, died in 1888, in her ninety-first year.
Warren J. Hoyt married Jeanette Manchester, who was born in
Chenango county, New York, in 1834. Her parents were Milton
and Emeline (Stilson) Manchester. Her father, who was a gard-
ener and basket maker, died in 1884, aged eighty-one years. Her
mother died in 1850, aged forty-one years.

Warren J. Hoyt, born in Torington, Connecticut, in 1834, set-
tled at Halsey Valley, Tioga county. New York, and worked there
at his trade, that of a cooper, later going into merchandising. In
1881 he came to Hammondsport. Some years before his death he
engaged in the vineyard business and became a stockholder in the
Hammondsport Cooperage Company. These interests commanded
his attention to the end of his life. He was an active Republican,
not an office seeker, but a worker for the principles represented by
his party. He lived a quiet, , Christian life, devoted to the family,
and in a public spirited way to the good of the community. His
son, Gordon G. Hoyt, is manager of the Hammondsport Cooperage
Company.

Maurice Adrian Hoyt was born in Tioga county. New York,
April 10, 1874. He began his education in public schools near his
home. At fifteen he entered high school at Chicago, Illinois, and
also took up the study of pharmacy. A part of his preparation for
the business career he contemplated was a six years' clerkship in a
drug store. For a time after his return to Hammondsport, he was
employed by the Hammondsport Cooperage Company. Then he
became local station agent for the Bath & Hammondsport Rail-
way Company. Then, after two years clerkship in the old Ham-
mondsport drug store of James Smellie, he bought the drug store
of Hobart J. Moore in 1892 and has since conducted it with much
success. He is a man of public spirit, devoted to the upbuilding of
the village, and is now a member of the town committee. As a
Republican he is an active worker in the local political field and has
been called to several town offices. He is a member of the Presby-
terian church and helpful to its various interests. He is a Mason,
a member of the Blue Lodge, Commandery and Shrine, and has
held high office in some of the organizations. He is a member also
of the Improved Order of Red Men and of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks.

Mr. Hoyt married Nancy E. Haight, who was born April 9,
1872j and has borne him one daughter, Mary Lenore, the date of
whose nativity was December 2, 1900, and who is now in the fifth
grade at school; and one son, Maurice Gilmore, born November 7,
1905. Mr. Hoyt's sisters are Ella, who is Mrs. Lemual Schutt of
Halsey Valley, New York ; Addie M., the wife of Dr. H. M. Corey
of Chicago ; and Vesta C, the widow of Lewis B. Scott of Chicago.

John W. Curtis, a dealer in farm implements at Bath, New
York, was born at Hornellsville, Steuben county, January 15, 1864,
his father, Samuel R. Ciirtis, having taken up his residence in this

610 HISTOEY OF STEUBEK COUNTY

county in 1860. Here Samuel R. Curtis lived and prospered, carry-
ing on agricultural pursuits, for more than thirty years. He died
February 22, 1892. His widow, Martha (Parker) Curtis, daughter
of W. G. Parker, is still living, now sixty-nine years of age. To
them were born four children, namely : Harry, a farmer at Elmira,
New York; William, a mechanic, Buffalo, New York; Agnes, de-
ceased, and John W.

John W. Curtis passed his boyhood on the farm, receiving his
education in the schools near his home. He continued farming
until, on account of ill health, he sold the home farm and turned his
attention to other occupations, finally becoming interested in the
sale of farm implements, with Steuben and adjoining counties as his
field of operation, in which he is meeting with marked success. And
in connection with this business he makes a specialty of buying and
shipping potatoes. Previous to his taking up this line of occupation,
he was for a time interested in the insurance business at Buffalo.

Mr. Curtis married, in 1890, Miss Emma Rooeh. She died in
1902, leaving no issue. His religious creed is that of the Methodist
Episcopal church, of which he is a worthy member.

George Washington Marts, who is now living virtually re-
tired in the attractive little city of Way] and, is a scion of one of the
sterling pioneer families of Steuben county, though he himself was
born in Dansville township, in the adjoining county of Livingston,
on the 20th of October, 1838. He is well known in this section of
the state and his course has been so guided and governed as to
justify the unqualified esteem in which he is uniformly held in the
community. Mr. Marts is a son of Daniel Marts, who was born
in the home now owned by Judge William Clark, in Wayland
township, Steuben - county, and the date of whose nativity was
May 8, 1816. He was a son of George Marts, who was born in
Pennsylvania, of stanch German lineage, and who came from the
old Keystone state to Steuben county in an early day, becoming
one of the substantial agriculturists of Wayland township, where
both he and his wife continued to reside until their death. Of their
nine children only 6. W. Marts is now living.

Daniel Marts was reared to the sturdy discipline of the pioneer
farm and was afforded the advantages of the somewhat primitive
schools of the locality and period. As a youth he went to Dansville,
Livingston county, where he entered upon an apprenticeship at
the trade of paper-making, but one year later he returned to Steu-
ben county and purchased a farm in Wayland township, near the
village of the same name. There he continued to be actively en-
gaged in agricultural pursuits for the ensuing seven years, at the
expiration of which he sold the farm and removed to the village of
Wayland, where he assumed charge of the loading and shipping of
lumber for a leading firm engaged in the lumber business at this
pomt. Later he engaged in the draying and general transfer busi-
ness and also conducted independent operations in the lumber trade,

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HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 613

with which lines of business he here continued to be actively con-
cerned for seventeen years. After the railroad was completed
through the village he found it inexpedient to continued his busi-
ness, as the railroad provided better facilities for the transfer of
freight and produce, and thereafter he lived retired, save that for
a number of years he had the supervision of the Wayland cemetery.
He was a man of impregnable integrity and ever commanded the
unequivocal confidence of all who knew him. His political al-
legiance was given to the Democratic party and he was an earnest
exponent of its principles and policies. He served as poormaster
of Wayland township for a number of years and also held other
local oiB'ces of minor order. He was a most ztialous member of
the Methodist Episcopal church, as was also his wife, and he was
specially active in the work of the Sunday-school, in which he was
an able and valued teacher for many years. In recognition of his
many years of service in connection with the freighting and team-
ing business prior to the construction of the railroad through Way-
land and Dansville the citizens of the latter place presented to him,
in 1872, a fine silver watch, which was purchased with money
secured by popular subscription and which was given him as a
token of confidence and esteem. This watch is now the property
of his son George W., of this sketch, and is treasured as a valued
heirloom. As a young man Daniel Marts was united in marriage
to Miss JMartha Wilson, who was born at Loon Lake, Wayland
township, this county, on the 24th of May, 1819, and who was a
daughter of Jeremiah Wilson, a well known pioneer of this section
of the state, where he continued to reside until his death. Daniel
and Martha (Wilson) IMarts became the parents of nine children,
of whom the subject of this review is now the only survivor.

George W. Marts was reared to maturity on the home farm
and early began to assist in its work, finding ample demand upon
his services while still a mere boy and such demands being so in-
sistent as to render it impossible for him to attend school except at
intermittent intervals of brief duration. He has, however, effect-
ually overcome this early handicap through the lessons gained un-
der the direction of that wisest of headmasters, experience. He
endured his full quota of hardships and privations in his youth,
and the record of the family in the early days was that expressed
by Lincoln concerning his parents,— "the short and simple annals
of the poor." Mr. Marts continued to assist in the work and
management of the home farm until he had attained to his legal
majority and soon afterward he responded to the call of patriotism
and higher duty when the integrity of the nation was menaced by
armed rebellion. On the 16th of November, 1861, he tendered his
services in defense of the Union, by enlisting as a private in Com-
pany I, Sixth U. S. Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front
and with which he participated in many important engagements,
his regiment having been assigned to the Army of the Potomac.
One the 7th of July, 1864, he received his honorable discharge, but

G14 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY

on the following day he re-enlisted for three years more as a
veteran in the same company and regiment, with which he con-
tinued in service until some time after the surrender of General
Lee. For some time his regiment was in service on the Pacific
coast and other portions of the west, and he took part in numerous
conflicts with the Indians while protecting emigrants who were
making their way across the plains. During the last three years
of his service he was sergeant of his company. His military rec-
ord is one that redounds to his credit as a loyal soldier and he
maintains his association with his old comrades by retaining mem-
bership in the Grand Army of the Republic. After the close of his
military service Mr. Marts returned to Steuben county, where he
was associated with his father in the express and freighting busi-
ness until 1872, after which he devoted two years to the manu-
facturing of shingles. Thereafter he was in the employ of the
Erie Railroad Company for a time and finally he entered the em-
ploy of the firm of Capen & Fowler, engaged in the produce busi-
ness. For seven years he had charge of the branch establish-
ment of the firm at Atlanta, this county, and he then returned to
Wayland, where he had the supervision of the street lights of the
village for two years. For five years he was employed at the local
station of the Erie Railroad, and for the ensuing four years he
was identified with the operations of the Wayland canning factory.
Since that time he has lived practically retired, having an attrac-
tive home in the village of Wayland, where he is held in uniform
confidence and esteem. In politics he gives his allegiance to the
Democratic party.

In the year 1876 Mr. Marts was united in marriage to jMiss
Fannie Fox, who was born and reared in Steuben county, and who
is a daughter of the late Jesse Fox. Mr. and Mrs. Marts have no
children. Mr. Marts is very active in educational work. He
speaks to the school children two or three times each year, and
gives liberally of his means to school purposes.

Mrs. Mary E. Platt, widow of the late Cephas F. Piatt and
mother of state senator Frank C. Platt, is a life-long resident of
Painted Post, having been born there June 20, 1831, a daughter
of Francis E. Erwin. Her father, also a native of Painted Post,
born in 1806, passed his entire life there, identified with leading
interests of the community, giving his attention principally to
farming and real estate and amassing, a considerable fortune for
his time, chiefly in land, of which he left about two hundred and
fifty acres to each of his five children. His wife was Miss Sophia
McCall, born east of Corning, in Steuben county. For a year after
their marriage they conducted a public house. That business was
not to the taste of either of them, however. They had seven
children, of whom five grew to manhood or womanhood and of
whom these four are living: Samuel S., Mary E., Platt, Francis,
and Mrs. Harriet Wilkes of Bath.

HLSTORY OF STEUBEX (^OUXTY G15

Mrs. Piatt was educated at the Troy, New York Seminary.
In May, 1852, she married Cephas P. Piatt, a native of Otsego
county, New York, and they settled down to wedded life in a house
which they ^uilt at Painted Post that year and in which she has
lived ever since. Mr. Piatt was a lawyer, a banker and a man of
affairs of the best judgment and ability, well and widely known and
highly respected wherever known. In the course of his active life
he accumulated a fine property including about eighteen hundred
acres of good farming land. He died in 1883. Mrs. Piatt bore
him three children— Mrs. Sophia E. Tousey, Mrs. Elizabeth Ham-
ilton of Campbell, Steuben county, and Hon. Frank C^ Piatt.
Her home at Painted Post is one of the most beautiful in that
part of the county, and she has always dispensed a generous
hospitality that has made it sought by the most refined people in
"Old Steuben." The prominence of her late husband and of
their son has kept her in touch indirectly with the leading spirits
of her part of the state, and those who know her own family
speak of her as of pioneer stock.

Guy H. McMaster.— One who conferred honor and dignity
upon the bench and bar of the Empire state was Judge McMaster,
who passed virtually his entire life in the attractive little city of
Bath and who ever commanded the affectionate regard and high
esteem of the people of Steuben county. His character was the
positive expression of a strong and noble nature and he left upon
the annals of hi^ native state the record of distinguished service
as a legist and jurist and as a man he "kept himself unspotted
of the world."

Judge Guy H. McMaster was born at Clyde, Wayne county,
New York, on the 31st of January, 1829, and he died at Bath,
Steuben county, on the 13th of September, 1887. He was a son
of Judge David and Adeline (Humphreys) McMaster, who re-
moved from Wayne county to Bath, Steuben county, when he was
about one year of age. Here he was reared to maturity and here
he continued to maintain his home until he was summoned from
the scene of life's mortal endeavors. He received excellent edu-
cational advantages in his youth and in 1847, when eighteen years
of age, he was graduated in Hamilton College, from which he
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was a member of
the same class as were Senator Joseph R. Hawley, Charles Dudley
Warner and Colonel Emmons Clark. Soon after leaving college
Judge McMaster began the study of law and in 1852 he was ad-
mitted to the bar. He forthwith engaged in the active practice of
his profession in Bath and for some time he was associated in
practice with Colonel Charles W. Campbell, as was he later with
Hon. Clark Bell. For the last twenty years he was senior member
of the firm of McMaster & Parkhurst, the junior member of which
was his son-in-law, the late Judge John F. Parkhurst, to whom
a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this work. In 1863 Judge

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McMaster was elected to the office of county judge and surrogate
of Steuben county and at the expiration of his first term, in 1867,
he was elected for another term of four years. In 1877 he was
elected to the same dual office for a term of six years. In 1883
when the offices of county judge and surrogate were separated,
he was elected surrogate for a term of six years and he was nom-
inated for this office by acclamation. As surrogate he had no
superior in the state. His knowledge of the minutia of the science
of jurisprudence and of precedent was of the most profound order
and his knowledge of surrogate practice was specially ample and
accurate so that he was able to define clearly the duties and lia-
bilities of administrators, executors and guardians. On the bench
he was invariably dignified, courteous and forbearing and these
qualities won to him the admiration and high regard of lawyers,
litigants, witnesses and jurors. He frequently interfered to shield
flurried witnesses from unnecessary annoyance at the hands of
attorneys. His rulings were given with promptness and clarity
of diction and so accurate were his judgment and knowledge of
the law that during the fourteen years that he presided upon the
bench of the county court no new trial was ever ordered by the
supreme court in any case tried by him. Judge McMaster iden-
tified himself with the Republican party at the time of its organi-
zation and ever continued an able and effective exponent of its
principles and policies. He was a devout member of the Presby-
terian church, as was also his wife, and he found his greatest
solace and pleasure in the associations of an idyllic home. He was
a man of exalted character and, knowing well the springs of
human thought and motive, he was tolerant and charitable in his
judgment of his fellow men, ever striving to aid and uplift those
who needed such succor and being specially earnest in his charities
and benevolences. He was a man of fine literary ability and ap-
preciation and his reading covered a wide realm of classical and
modern literature. He had great poetical talent and was the
author of many poems that are chaste and beautiful in thought
and metrical form. These alone would give him enduring reputa-
tion as a man of great literary genius. His published work, ' ' Car-
mena Bellicosum," contains many poetical gems and the work has
met with high commendation on the part of both critics and lovers
of poetry.

In 1853 was solemnized the marriage of Judge McMaster to
Miss Amanda Church, daughter of Robert W. Church, of Bath.
Mrs. McMaster was summoned to the life eternal on the 29th of
November, 1883, and of their four children three are living —
Humphrey, who is at the present time clerk in the office of the sur-
rogate of Steuben county at Bath; Alice, who is the widow of Judge
John F. Parkhurst and who resides at Bath, and Katharine, a
resident of Bath. As has been stated, a review of the life of
Judge Parkhurst appears elsewhere in this work.

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 617

WiLiLiAM J. Brundage. — As a scion of old and honored fam-
ilies of the central eastern part of the Empire state and as one of
the representative business men of Steuben county, Mr. Brundage
is well entitled to recognition in this publication. He is prom-
inently identified with viticulture and wine manufacturing and
is the owner of a fine vineyard in Urbana township, besides which
he is a stockholder in the Urbana Wine Company. His postofSce
address is Keuka. ' ^ ;

Mr. Brundage was born In Urbana township, Steuben county,
on the 2nd of August, 1864, and is the only child of David J. and
Anna' J. (Douglass) Brundage. The father became one of the
successful representatives of the agricultural industry in Yates
county, where he owned a finely improved farm of two hundred
acres, upon which he continued to reside until his death. He was
a stanch Republican in his political proclivities, having been in-
fluential in local afliairs in Yates county and having ever com-
manded the unqualified esteem of all who knew him.

William J. Brundage is indebted to the public schools of
Yates county for his early educational discipline and he continued
to be associated in the work and management of the home farm
until he had attained to the age of twenty-four years. After the
death of his father he assumed charge of the old homestead, of
which he has since maintained a general supervision. This farm
comprises two hundred acres and is one of the valuable places of
this section of the state. Mr. Brundage is a stockholder in the
Urbana Wine Company and he is also actively identified with the
grape-growing industry and with diversified agriculture on the
old home farm lying on the border near the line dividing Yates and
Steuben counties, besides which he owns his fine vineyard near
Keuka, in Urbana township, Steuben county. Mr. Brundage is
known as a progressive and public-spirited citizen and while he
has never had any aspiration for political office he accords a stanch
support to the Republican party. He is a member of the Presby-
terian church, is a bachelor and is recognized as one of the suc-
cessful business men and sterling citizens of his native county.

Charles A. Avet. — After having been successfully identified
with agricultural pursuits for more than a quarter of a century
Mr. Avey is now living virtually retired in the attractive little
village of Wayland, though he still retains the ownership of his
fine homestead farm, located in Springwater township, Livingston
county, near the border of Steuben county. He is well known
throughout this section of the state, where the major part of his
life has been passed, and his course has been such as to entitle him
to the unequivocal confidence in which he is held.

Mr. Avey was born at New York on the 12th of February,
1865, and is a son of Chester and Henrietta (Milliman) Avey, the
former of whom was bom in Steuben county. Chester Avey was
a son of Andrew Avey, who removed to Steuben county from

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Pennsylvania and who became one of the prosperous farmers. of
the county, where he continued to reside until his death. Chester
Avey gained his initial experience in connection with the work
of the home farm and received such advantages as were afforded
in the common schools of the locality and period. As a youth he
learned the carpenter's trade, as well as that of painter, to both
of which he devoted his attention until his death, which occurred
at Dansville, Livingston county, in 1875, at which tune he was
forty-two years of age. His wife was summoned to the life eternal
in 1883, at the age of fifty-six years. She was a daughter of
Nicholas Milliman, who passed his declining years in the home of
his grandson, Charles A. Avey, of this review, and who died at the
venerable age of eighty-six years. Of the children of Chester and
Henrietta (Milliman) Avey, Charles A. is the younger of the two
surviving, and his sister, Mary, is the wife of John Moore, of
Flint, Michigan.

Charles A. Avey was about ten years of age at the time of
his father's death and about three years later, in 1878, he accom-
panied his sister and her husband to Michigan, where he re-
mained until 1883 and where he continued his studies in the public
schools. He then returned to his native state and entered the high
school at Dansville, where he continued his studies until he had
attained to the age of eighteen years. Thereafter he was a success-
ful and popular teacher in the district schools for a period of four
years, thus putting his scholastic attainments to practical use
after his graduation in the Dansville high school. After his re-
tirement from the pedagogic profession he assumed the manage-
ment of the farm of his maternal grandfather, Nicholas Milliman,
in Springwater township, Livingston county, and of this fine prop-
erty he eventually became the owner. He made many improve-
ments on the place and brought it up to the highest standard of
productiveness. There he continued to reside until 1910, when he
rented the farm and removed to the village of Wayland, Steuben
county, where he purchased an attractive residence property and
where he is now living essentially retired, enjoying the rewards
of former years of earnest toil and endeavor. He still gives a
general supervision to his farm, which yields him a satisfactory
income. Mr. Avey has never been animated with aught of ambi-
tion for public offices but he is found aligned as a stanch sup-
porter of the cause of the Eepublican party and he has not denied
his influence and co-operation in the support of measures and en-
terprises tending to advance the general welfare, both civic and
material. He is not formally identified with any religious organi-
zation but is a liberal supporter of the United Evangelical church,
of which Mrs. Avey is a member.

In the year 1890 Mr. Avey was united in marriage to iliss
Ida Lawrence, who was born and reared in Springwater township,
Livingston county, and who is a daughter of Ira and Julia (Lewis)
Lawrence, who continued to reside in that county until their death.

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the father having been a prosperous fanner. Mr. and Mrs. Avey
have one daughter, Olive, who was born August 30, 1892, and
who is now employed as a bookkeeper and stenographer at Homell,
Steuben county. She is a graduate of Maple City Business
College.

Adelbeet Perry.— a prosperous citizen and a successful law-
yer, this well known gentleman of Homell counts his friends
throughout Steuben county and in many of the towns and villages
of surrounding counties. He has been thus far a life-long resi-
dent of Hornellsville and of the city of Hornell, having been born
in the old village, November 16, 1854. His father, Silas Perry,
born in Almond, in the neighboring county of Allegany, came to
Hornell about 1850. His drug store was, if not the pioneer of its
class, one of the early drug stores in the village. He was later a
merchant in other lines and gave some attention to farming. He
traced his ancestry to Prench-Scotch sources. Combining the amia-
bility of the Prenchman with the hard business sense of the Scotch-
man he made friends and prospered well, considering his time and
opportunities. He lived to be about sixty-six years old.

Silas Ferry, of whom somewhat extended mention has just
been made, married Cyrena Stephens, a native of Hornellsville
and a daughter of Colonel John R. Stephens. That gentleman
was of English extraction, a lineal descendant of one of three
brothers of the name who were among the pioneers in southern
central New York. There is a family tradition that two of them
were passengers on the historic Mayflower of blessed memory.
So far as Hornell itself is concerned Colonel Stephens was him-
self one of its pioneers. He was the first town clerk at Hornells-
ville and was several times elected supervisor and from time to
time filled other important offices. In 'other fields than local poli-
tics he was active. His was one of the earliest frame houses erected
in the village. In Masonry he was one of the most influential of
the early leaders. For eighteen successive years he was master of
his lodge; for twenty-six years, from June 25, 1875, when his
chapter was organized, he was its high priest. His daughter, wife
of Silas Ferry and mother of Adelbert Ferry, died when she was
sixty-six years old.

Adelbert Ferry, only child of Silas and Cyrena (Stephens)
Perry, received his English education in the public schools at
Hornell and in select schools at Greenville, Pennsylvania. In
1873 he began the study of law in the offices of Hakes and Stephens
and in 1876 was admitted to the bar, having been duly graduated
from the Albany, New York, law school. He began the practice of
his profession at Dalton, Livingston county, but remained there only
a few months. Prom there he removed to Hornellsville, where he
devoted a part of his time to farming. He owns a farm of one
hundred and thirty acres two miles from Hornell and another of
sixty acres on Bull Hill, besides real estate in Hornell and some
valuable lots on the Arkport road. He resumed his law practice

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in 1907 and has met with good success. Throughout the county
he is well and favorably known as a man of influence, and he was
a stanch Republican up to 1910, when he decided to join the ranks
of Democracy. In Masonic circles his position is high. He is a
member of Homell Lodge, No. 331', Free and Accepted Masons,
of Steuben Chapter, No. 101, Royal Arch jMasons, of Hornells-
ville Council, No. 135, Royal and Select Masters of De Molay Com-
mandery, No. 22, Knights Templars, and of Damascus Temple,
Rochester, New York. He is eminent in lodge and encampment
in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His public spirit ren-
ders him helpful and popular as a citizen.

Hon. Milo M. Acker, lawyer and man of affairs, was bom
at Hartsville, New York, October 3, 1853, of German-American
parentage. Until he attained his majority he worked for his
father during the farming season and found employment in the
lumber woods during the remainder of the year, devoting what
little spare time he had to study. He saved money enough to keep
him awhile at Alfred University, and was enabled to take up the
duties of life well equipped educationally for all responsibilities.

In 1879 and 1880 Mr. Acker was supervisor of Hartsville. In
1881 he began the study of law in the office of Judge Hakes at
Hornellsville. He was admitted to the bar in 1883 and became a
member of Judge Hakes' law firm in 1885. In 1886 Mr. Acker
served as recorder of Hornellsville. He was four times elected to
represent his district in the state legislature and held many prom-
inent places on important committees. In 1890 he was chairman
of the judiciary committee. In 1891 he was Republican candidate
for the speakership and therefore leader of the Republicans in
the house. He was recognized as one of the best debaters in the
assemblies of which he was a member.

Mr. Acker was a member of the State Constitutional con-
vention in 1894 and of its committee on rules. Since 1904 he has
been a member of the State Water Supply Commission. He has
served on the board of education of his home city, as trustee of
the public library, the Farmers' Club, the First National Bank
and the First Presbyterian church, and on the governing boards
of several private clubs. In 1890 he married Mary W. Clarke of
Brattleboro, Vermont.

Nancy Smith.— Among the most intelligent and capable
women of Steuben county. New York, is Nancy Smith, living in
the village of Bath, a member of a family that has been prominent
in the region for more than a hundred years. The emigrant an-
cestor of this family was Andrew Smith, who came from Scotland
in 1791 as secretary for Captain Williamson. He settled at Bath,
New York, in 1793, purchasing the present old Smith homestead
near Bath, where he took up three hundred and sixty-five acres of
land. He died on this farm in 1837 at the age of seventy-five years.
The fifth generation is now living on the homestead. Andrew Smith

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married Elizabeth Lewis, a native of Orange county, New York,
and they had six children, the youngest son of whom was Andrew.
Mr. Smith was one of the earliest to settle east of Bath, and was one
of the sturdy pioneers who helped in first developing and im-
proving the community. He was well read and well educated for
his time and locality. In religion he was a Presbyterian.

Andrew Smith, Jr., the youngest son of Andrew and Eliza-
beth Smith, was born near Bath, and after receiving his education
worked at various occupations for several years. He died in 1852
at the age of forty-six. He married Maria Doyle, who was born
at Bath, a granddaughter of Samuel Doyle, also a pioneer. She
was reared by her grandparents, Samuel and Mary Doyle. Mrs.
Smith died in 1889, at the age of eighty-four years. She and her
husband had two sons and two daughters, namely : Charles, died
in infancy; Joseph, died in the Civil war; Elizabeth, deceased,
and Nancy.

Nancy Smith was born in 1836 near the old homestead near
Bath. She received her education in Haverling High School and
taught school twenty-two years, beginning in 1852. She lived with
and took care of her mother until the latter 's death. Miss Smith
taught also in select school and in private families and is well
known and highly esteemed by all who know her. Miss Smith
reputation for ability in her profession and was very fond of it.
She is an active worker in the interests of the Presbyterian church,
of which she is a member. Miss Smith is unmarried. She is well
versed in the early history of the county and feels justly proud
of the part taken by her family in promoting the general welfare
of the community. There are eleven of the Smith family of the
third generation still living. Miss Smith has now retired from
active life and for many years has lived quietly, though she keeps
well informed on the current topics and issues of the day.

William Henry Greenhow^. — One of the most able and en-
lightened exponents of the fourth estate, not only in Steuben coun-
ty but in this part of the New York as well, is William Henry
Greenhow, editor of that excellent sheet, the Hot-nell Tribune.
Mr. Greenhow has directed its destinies fully forty years, conduct-
ing it on broad and liberal lines, and standing as it does for clean
principles and ideals it is one of the most potent contributors to
the high prestige enjoyed by Hornell as a community.

By the circumstance of birth Mr. Greenhow is a Pennsylvanian,
his birth having occurred in the city of Philadelphia, November
13, 1845, but by parentage and descent he is British. The father,
John Greenhow, was born in Kendall, England, and chose as his
wife Mary Frodsham, of St. Helens, England, their union being
celebrated in Galena, Illinois. The father followed the trade of a
printer in the old country, and after his emigration to this, became
an editor and clergyman. His father was a teacher of Latin and
mathematics and managed a large estate in Westmoreland, Eng-

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land. One of his sons became a teacher of classic languages and
mathematics in Windsor College in his twenty-third year, but what
promised to be a brilliant career was cut short by his untimely
death in that very year. John Greenhow, convinced that greater
opportunity awaited a young man in a land of newer civilization
than Great Britain, considered going to Australia, but finally de-
cided in favor of America, for which he sailed with his particular
lares and penates, landing on these shores about the year 1842.
New Orleans was the first American city which his eyes beheld and
he visited and lived in many sections of the United States and
Canada, settling in Hornell in 1870, and remaining in this favored
section of Steuben county until the year 1892.

When Mr. Greenhow was very young his parents removed to
Canada and his earliest experiences were of farm life. He re-
ceived public school advantages, pursuing the usual course of
studies, and supplementing this most effectively by a self-imposed
study and omniverous reading. In 1866, about the time at which
he arrived at his majority, Mr. Greenhow joined his father in the
publication of the Canastota (New York) Herald, and finding the
work congenial, in 1870 acquired the Hornellsville (then so-called)
Tribune. Almost from the beginning a course of improvements
was inaugurated. In 1873 the Tribune was made a tri-weekly and
in 1878 it took its place among the New York dailies. Charles F.
Peck, later New York state commissioner of labor, purchased the
elder Mr. Greenhow 's interest in the paper, the firm being known
as Greenhow & Peck. This proved to be a stormy period, for Peek
was aggressive in his writings and the instigator of much wrath.
He was burned in efiigy at one time, was horsewhipped by a woman
at another and several libel suits occurred. Mr. Greenhow pur-
chased Peck's interest in 1884 and a more serene and peaceful
regime ensued. It was conducted under his name alone until
January 1, 1909, when the paper was incorporated under the name
of the W. H. Greenhow Company, of which Mr. Greenhow is presi-
dent and editor-in-chief. Mr. Greenhow enjoys to the utmost the
confidence of his associates and during the Cleveland administra-
tion, from 1886 to 1891, he gave efficient service as postmaster of
Hornell, establishing the free delivery service here. He also served
as town clerk for four years, his term of office expiring in 1878.

Mr. Greenhow is devoted to the principles of the Democratic
party, being willing to do anything in his power for the cause. He
is very liberal in his treatment of the public's affairs, neverthe-
less, and has assumed a most admirable attitude toward the repre-
sentatives of the opposition party. Having the only newspaper
in Hornell he has conducted it on broad public and liberal lines,
and seeking to deserve the respect of his neighbors he has been
entirely successful in the attainment of this laudable ambition.
The years have brought a host of competitors. Many of them were
experienced newspaper men with ample resources, but none were
able to establish a solid foothold, owing to popular support of Mr.

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Greenhow and the impossibility of making more than one penny
paper pay in Homell.

On June 23, 1886, Mr. Greenhow laid the foundations of a
household of his own and a congenial life companionship, the lady
to become his wife being Helen M. Stephens, daughter of Hon.
Obadiah Stephens. They have one daughter, Olive, now Mrs.
Louis H. Buiseh, of Fairbanks, Alaska, where the Eev. Mr. Buiseh
is rector of St. Matthew's church.

Mr. Greenhow, while an ardent partisan of the Democratic
faith, is recognized as being very fair to the opposition, allowing
its representatives access to the columns of his newspaper and
ample notices of their meetings. More than that the proceedings
of those meetings are reported exactly as though they were Demo-
cratic meetings an^ speakers, by personal instruction to reporters,
and statements of speakers are subject to fair editorial criticism.
This gives advocates of both sides of a controversy a hearing from
every element in the entire community, an advantage they could
not have in a personal organ with a limited circulation.

Mr. Greenhow 's business connections in the city are extensive.
He is a stockholder in each of the three city banks and a director
in two and is connected with other enterprises. He is a director in
the Maple City Land Company, an enterprise established by public-
spirited citizens to provide houses for Erie Railroad employes to
secure additions to the extensive shops of that company in Hornell.
He is also a director in the Chamber of Commerce. He is con-
nected with several fraternal societies and is associated with the
Episcopal church. In 1901 Mr. Greenhow organized the now very
successful "New York Associated Dailies," an organization em-
bracing fortj-five daily papers in the state outside the metropolitan
cities, and was for the first three years president thereof. In 1909,
while absent in Alaska, he was elected president of the New York
State Press Association, embracing three hundred in its member-
ship, and presided at the annual convention in Saratoga in 1910,
the efficiency of his services being recognized by the members by a
handsome gift at the close.

George L. Preston, M. D.— Secure in the enjoyment of great
personal and professional popularity in Steuben county and
Canisteo, a citizen of high ideals and prominent in other circles
than his honored profession is Dr. George L. Preston. He is a
native son of Steuben county, his birth having occurred here April
18, 1861. He is the son of Elisha W. Preston and his wife, Martha
J. Preston.

Dr. Preston was educated in Canisteo Academy and early
chose the medical profession as his life work. To this end he en-
tered the Eclectic Medical College of New York city and was
graduated from that famous institution in 1882, having just at-
tained to his majority. He began his practice in Italy, Yates coun-
ty. New York, and his residence there was of nearly eighteen years

624 HISl'ORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY

duration. In 1901 he removed to his native town of Canisteo and
has ever since continued here in the active practice of his profes-
sion. Dr. Preston is by no means one of those who are content
to let well enough alone and in 1886 he took a post graduate course
in the New York Post-Graduate College, specializing on the eye,
ear, nose and throat. In 1900 he again took post graduate work,
this time in the Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore, Maryland,
upon this occasion devoting his attention to the diseases of women
and surgery, as well as in the lines in which he had previously
specialized, the eye, ear, nose and throat.

Ever since coming to Canisteo in 1901 Dr. Preston's practice
has been on the increase and it is now one of the largest in Steuben
county, while in addition to this he is medical examiner for several
life insurance companies. He is not inexperienced in public of&ce
and for two terms in Yates county held the position of coroner.
He is a Mason of high standing, a loyal adherent of the policies
and principles of the Republican party, and a Unitarian.

Dr. Preston has been twice married. His first wife was Miss
Carrie Jamison, daughter of Daniel Jamison, a prominent citizen
of Canisteo, where her birth occurred June 15, 1860. She was
educated in the Canisteo Academy and was married to Dr. Preston
March 7, 1888, her death occurring January 13, 1895. One son is
the issue of their union, J. Louis Preston, born in Italy, New York,
February 5, 1889. He graduated from the high school of Canisteo
in 1909 and is at present attending the University of New York
and Bellevue Medical College, it being his intention to follow in
the parental footsteps in the matter of a profession. Dr. Preston's
second wife was, previous to her marriage, Miss Alice Jamison,
daughter of Eugene Jamison, and born in Oakland, Livingston
county. New York, March 7, 1879. They were married September
24. 1902, and have one daughter, Eugenia, born July 25, 1904. Dr.
Preston is a lover of outdoor life and he finds no small amount of
diversion in the breeding of high grade poultry, having had great
success in this line of endeavor.

Dbxtee M. White, a farmer of Bath, Steuben county, is a
son of Russell White and was born in Fremont, Steuben county,
February 17, 1865. The father, also a native of Fremont, is still
living, aged seventy-three years. Besides Dexter M., he had chil-
dren as follows: Celinda, Amos, Bben, Mary, George, Merrit and
Carrie, and Charles, who died in infancy. Eben is a doctor of
medicine and lives in Washington ; Mary is a member of her fath-
er 's household; George is a farmer living in Cortland county. New
York ; Merrit, a farmer, lives at Belmont, Allegany county ; Carrie
is a trained nurse in Washington; Celinda is the wife of L. D.
Harrington, an upholsterer at 33 Genesee street, Hornell.

Dexter M. White was educated in the public schools and at
the age of twenty-one began farming for himself. Later he was
for five years in the agricultural implement business, living for

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one year in Chicago. Returning to Ithaca, New York, he took the
dairy course at Cornell University, after which he accepted a, posi-
tion as, manager of a large dairy farm in New Britain, Connecti-
cut. Thence he went to Lake George, New York, where he was
for a year superintendent of a large farm. Marrying, he settled
on his present home farm in 1899 and has since devoted himself to
breeding Holstein cattle and also Yorkshire swine. At the New
York state fair of 1907 he won every first champion and grand
champion that he exhibited, also champion for breeder, same for
exhibitor as well as the American Yorkshire special.

Mr. White married Miss Carrie B. Bowlby, daughter of John
Bowlby. She was born in 1875. He has children as follows:
Lydia, aged nine; Erwin, aged five; Helen, aged three; Chester,
an infant. Mr. and Mrs. White are members of the Presbyterian
church. He is a member of the Grange. He has a world wide
reputation as a breeder of Holsteins and was superintendent of the
horse department at the New York state fair at Syracuse four
years. He has no time for active political work, but has pronounced
views on all questions of public moment, town, county and national.
As a public-spirited citizen he is reputed to be at all times ready
to aid to the extent of his ability any movement having for its ob-
ject the enhancement of the well-being of any considerable number
of his fellow citizens.

Joseph W. Lebaet. — Many of the most energetic, enterprising
and prosperous business men of the Empire state are of foreign
birth and breeding, and bring with them to this country the habits
of industry, economy and thrift characteristic of their ancestors,
and in the land of their adoption meet with recognized success in
their undertakings. Noteworthy among this number is Joseph W.
Lebart, of Bath. A native of sunny Italy, he was born June 24,
1882, in Alessandria, a son of Cosimi Lebart.

The descendant of an old and honored Italian family, Cosimi
Lebart was bom sixty years ago in Alessandria, Italy, and has
there spent his entire life, being an extensive landowner and a
most successful stockman. He married Orazia Lici, who was born
in Italy in 1850, the descendant of a family distinguished as large
landholders. Her father, Tony Lici, lived to the remarkable age
of one hundred and two years. Five children were born to Cosimi
Lebart and wife, as follows : Rosa, wife of James Dispam, a farmer
and wine grower in Dunkirk, New York ; William, a shoe merchant
in Italy; Carrie, wife of Joseph Terrace, a commission merchant
in Italy ; Bert, engaged in the shoe business as a merchant in El-
mira. New York, and Joseph, of this sketch.

Leaving school at the age of fifteen years, Joseph W. Lebart
assisted in the care of the parental estate for five years. Desirous
then of trying the hazard of new fortunes, he emigrated to Amer-
ica, locating in Rochester, New York, where he carried on a sub-
stantial business as a caterer for awhile. In 1908 he took up his

626 HISTOEY OF STEUBEIST COUNTY

residence in Bath, where he still follows his occupation of a caterer,
being also engaged in other enterprises of a financial nature, buying
and selling, and otherwise successfully speculating. He is a man
of fine character and habits, and a conscientious member of St.
John's Catholic church.

Geoege Hollands.— An able exponent of the progressive spirit
that has caused Hornell to forge ahead so rapidly as an industrial
and commercial center is George Hollands, of the house of George
Hollands & Sons, druggists, at Hornell, Steuben county, New
York. He was born in Sussex, England, January 9, 1841, and is
a son of William and Charlotte Hollands, both of whom were like-
wise natives of England. With a family of six children they emi-
grated to the United States in 1850 and located at Mansfield, Tioga
county, Pennsylvania. Four more children were bom to them after
their arrival in this country. At the age of eleven years George
Hollands entered the home of a respectable farmer, with whom it
was understood he was to live during his minority, giving his
services in return for board and clothing, in addition to which he
was to receive one hundred dollars and a suit of clothes when he
attained to his legal majority. His term of service would have
expired in 1862 but in 1861, at the time of the inception of the Civil
war, he responded immediately to President Lincoln's call for
volunteers by enlisting in Company B, One Hundred and First
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He continued in service until
the close of the war and participated in many of the most im-
portant battles marking the progress of that sanguinary conflict.
At the battle of Fair Oaks, May 30, 1862, he was wounded, and on
April 20, 1864, he, together with his entire regiment, was taken
prisoner. At the surrender at Plymouth, North Carolina, he was
taken to Andersonville prison in Georgia and later was transferred
to the Florence prison in South Carolina, where he was held in
duress until the following December, when his exchange was ef-
fected. In April, 1865, on his way south from Annapolis, Mary-
land, he was shipwrecked on the Potomac River while en route
to rejoin his regiment and was saved only by clinging to a mast
all night. In the morning he was picked up in an exhausted con-
dition by a gunboat. Thus in many ways he risked his life in the
cause of his country and in July, 1865, he received his honorable
discharge and was mustered out of service, having risen from the
rank of private to the office of first lieutenant. Mr. Hollands re-
tains a deep and abiding interest in his old comrades in arms and
signifies the same by his membership in the Grand Army of the
Republic.

Soon after the close of the rebellion Mr. Hollands initiated
his independent business career as a grocer, becoming a member of
the firm of Hollands & Fletcher, of Hornell, New York. This con-
cern occupied the old "Mammoth Store" opposite the park and
the partnership continued until the autumn of 1866, Avhen :\Ir.
Hollands returned to Pennsylvania and entered into business in
Full Brook and IMorris Run, Pennsylvania. In 1871, however, he

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again established his home in Hornell, where he has continued to
reside during the long intervening years to the present time. He
engaged in the drug business and the passage of time has wit-
nessed the growth of his establishment until today the house of
George Hollands & Sons is recognized as one of the largest and
most progressive of its class in the county. In connection with the
drug business Mr. Hollands was one of the organizers of the Hor-
nell Sanitarium Company, which was incorporated under the laws
of the state and of which he was for some time treasurer and a
director. His prominence in connection with the building of the
Hornell court house is a matter of public history.

In politics Mr. Hollands is aligned as a stalwart supporter of
the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands
sponsor and he has ever been on the alert and enthusiastically in
sympathy with aU measures and enterprises projected for the gen-
eral welfare of the community. Prior to the incorporation of the
city of Hornell he served for a period of six years as trustee of
the village. In 1879 he was elected county superintendent of the
poor for Steuben county, retaining this incumbency for a period
of three years, and in 1886 he served as a member of the board of
supervisors of Hornellsville. In 1891 he was given further mark
of public confidence and esteem in that he was then elected sheriff
of Steuben county and for three years he administered the affairs
of this office in a manner that won for him commendation as a
model sheriff. In 1906 he was elected supervisor of the first su-
pervisors district of the city to fill out the term of Mr. W. G.
Masterman, who had been elected county treasurer, and he was re-
elected again in 1907 for the term of two years and proved himself
a very capable official. He is affiliated with various fraternal and
social organizations of representative character and, as already
noted, he is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, hold-
ing membership in Doty Post, No. 226, of which he was commander
in 1889-90, and at present is its commander. Both he and his wife
are devout members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the dif-
ferent departments of whose work they have been most active
factors.

On the 2nd of January, 1866, Mr. Hollands was united in
marriage to Miss Lydia Bailey, 'who was bom and reared near
Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Hollands became the par-
ents of five children, namely: Minnie, the wife of Charles A.
Smith, of Middletown, New York ; Eva and Robert, deceased, their
deaths having occurred in October, 1876. George, Jr., who was
born November 1, 1875, and Burr R., born June 5, 1878, are both
now residents of this city and both of whom are now associated with
their father in the drug, book and stationery business.

It is to such men as Mr. Hollands that Hornell owes her ad-
vancement, to a proud position among the interior cities of the
state. The present status of the city was not gained without hard
work by the best citizens, without liberal helpfulness from leaders

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in all lines. Mr. Hollands has contributed in generous measure to
the civic and material development and progress and as a public
official he has well served his fellow citizens. To every demand
upon him he has responded with fine ability and admirable in-
tegrity, the spirit thaf prompted him to make sacrifices for the
defense of his country having dominated him through life.

Mrs. Saeah Edwards Harlow was born at Bath, Steuben
county, New York, June 5, 1847, a daughter of James R. Dudley.
Her father was a native of Bath, born November 5, 1816. He was
a son of John and Elizabeth Dudley from Maine, who settled early
at Bath, where Grandfather Dudley won success as a farmer and
became a man of influence in the town and county. After leaving
school James R. Dudley, who was well educated for his time, was
in the mercantile business till he accepted a place as bookkeeper
in Cook's Bank. He became prominent as a citizen and in political
circles as a Republican, was active and helpful in the work of the
Presbyterian church and was an earnest temperance leader. He
married, April 2, 1844, at Bath, Clarissa Roe Edwards, born in
Elmira, New York, December 25, 1820, a daughter of George C.
and Hannah Edwards, the father born at Stockbridge, Massa-
chusetts, September 21, 1787. Mr. Edwards, who was an able
lawyer, gained high standing at the Chemung county bar, but re-
moved to Bath in 1821. In 1827 he was appointed the first judge
of the court of common pleas of Steuben county. He married
Hannah Carpenter. He passed away November 18, 1837, she sur-
viving him till in 1877. He was a great-grandson of Jonathan
Seeley Edwards.

Besides Mrs. Harlow the children of James R. Dudley are:
Hannah E., of Bath; "William Dudley, a jeweler, Canisteo, New
York; John M. Dudley, a member of the stock exchange of New
York and a resident of Elizabeth, New Jersey. ]\Iiss Sarah Dudley
married Dr. James Stratton Harlow, who died in 1875, aged thirty-
four years, having attained high standing as a physician and sur-
geon. He was a son of the Rev. James M. and Abby (Osborne)
Harlow, pastor of the Bath Presbyterian church, 1863-68. Dr. and
Mrs. Harlow had three children, two of whom died in infancy.
The other is Agustin De Peyster Harlow of New York city. It
is a matter of record that Dr. Harlow became a member of the
Steuben County Medical Society in 1865. He was educated in
medicine at the Buffalo Medical College and was in practice at
Bath several years. After that he practiced about two years in
New York, then sought health unavailingly at Colorado Springs,
Colorado. He was a Presbyterian and a member of the Masonic
order. For a time he held the office of adjutant in the New York
state militia.

Miss Hannah Edwards Dudley, Mrs. Harlow's sister, was born
at Bath September 17, 1850. She has been practically all her life
a member of the Presbyterian church.

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Miss Maky L. Noble was born on the old Noble farm May 16,
1856, a daughter of Martin William Noble, who was born in Otsego
county, New York, in 1828, a son of Lay and Lucinda Noble. His
parents came to Bath, where his father worked for a time as a
cabinet maker. When they moved on the first Noble homestead
near the home where Miss Noble was bom he was but a child.
There Lay Noble improved a fine place and prospered as a farmer
and he died in 1879 at Bath, aged seventy-nine years, having been
born in 1800. He was a man of influence in his time, a Whig and
later a Republican, who was active in all work looking to the de-
velopment of his town and county, but never sought nor accepted
public office. In his religious affiliation he was an Episcopalian.

Martin W. Noble was educated in common schools near his
boyhood home and was brought up as a farmer's boy of all work,
in which capacity he learned in a very practical way about all that
was to be known about tilling the soil in the time and locality.
After the farm came to him he added to it and improved it in
many ways. He prospered not alone as a farmer but as a stock
raiser and shipper and as a wool buyer. Indeed, he was one of
leading stockmen in the county. His farm came eventually to com-
prise two hundred acres. He married Lucinda Hunter, born in
1830, a daughter of Peter and Lucinda (Dimmick) Hunter, natives
respectively of Bath and of Orange county. New York. Mr. Dim-
mick was a prominent farmer and stock raiser, a Republican and
a member of the Universalist church.

Martin W. and Lucinda (Hunter) Noble had the daughter
mentioned above and two sons. Their son, Clarence H. Noble, is ,a
farmer owning the Noble homestead. Their son, Albert Lay Noble,
is a lawyer at Winfield, Kansas. Miss Noble, after completing her
regular school course, was a student at the Clifton Springs Female
Seminary. Her life has been devoted to her parents. Her father
died May 23, 1900, and her mother April 11, 1909. She is a mem-
ber of the Episcopal church and a useful and popular member of
society.

Charles Oliver Jones.— This name will be recognized as that
of one of the earliest and most conspicuous victims of the airship,
which seems destined to kill off many of its inventors and devotees
before it is brought to safety and to practical utility. Mr. Jones
was born in Wayne county, Illinois, June 27, 1867. His father
was John Jones, who lived some years at Cincinnati, Ohio, where
he was a river boss on steamboats for the Wineford Coal Company.
Later he moved to Illinois, where he farmed as long as he lived,
He married Ellen Van Pelt, mother of the late Charles Oliver
Jones, and after her death he married Mathilda (Otte) Wilson,
a widow, who is now living with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Oliver
Jones, a child of her first marriage, her second husband being now

dead. ^ .

After leaving school Charles Oliver Jones was for some years
with an uncle on a cattle ranch in Texas. Then going to Chicago

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he studied drawing and engraving and did work in designing for
various artistic and commercial purposes. He invented the first
modern color work as applied to printing and during the "World's
Columbian Exposition in 1893 did the artist's color work for the
first number of the Graphic that was printed in colors. The prin-
ciples of his invention are now of world wide application and could
his name be handed along with them would give him endless fame
as an originator. After remaining in Chicago six years he re-
turned to his parents in Cincinnati, where he took a position in
the engraving department of a large establishment. Later he went
to Nashville, Tennessee, where he married and lived three years.
Then he went through the west, lecturing on Socialism. While
traveling with his family through the mountains with a team and
van that he had bought in Denver he began those studies in aerial
navigation which were destined to lead him to fame, but to death.

Returning to his old home in Illinois he remained there a
year, then went to Dayton, Ohio, where he organized a stock com-
pany to promote his airship plans. Mr. Curtiss and Mr. Baldwin
came to Hammondsport, Mr. Curtiss' birthplace, and built an
airdrome shed where they constructed his first machine. His first
flight was made in the valley in which Hammondsport lies. The
machine proved too heavy and was eventually converted into a
dirigible machine. This work Mr. Jones did himself. His first
flight in the new machine from the glen showed that the apparatus
was defective. He improved the machine and after trials at El-
mira and Binghamton, New' York, made several successful flights
at Palisade Park, in New Jersey, during August, and from there
he went to Waterville, Maine, where he was killed in his second
flight by the explosion of the gas bag of his machine, the cause of
which has never been explained. I

Mr. Jones married Miss Lottie Wilson, who was born at Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, March 22, 1879, a daughter of Alfred H. and Ma-
thilde (Otte) Wilson. Her father, an operator, had died and her
mother had married Mr. Jones' father. Mrs. Mathilde (Otte)
Wilson Jones' father was the first manufacturer of hats in Cin-
cinnati. Mrs. Jones bore her husband three children: Stanley,
aged ten years ; Mina, aged six years, and Alfred, aged three years.

Charles Gilbert Lyon.— A man of much ability, enterprise
and judgment, Charles Gilbert Lyon holds an assured position
among the foremost business men of Atlanta, Steuben county, and
as a man and a citizen is held in high respect. A son of the late
James S. Lyon, he was born May 22, 1864, in Bulfalo, New York.
Born and brought up in Montreal, Canada, James S. Lyon came
to the states with his parents, and during his active life was en-
gaged in the real estate business at Buffalo, New York, dying in
that city in 1892, aged seventy-six years. He married Louisa L.
Dougherty, a daughter of John and Julia Dougherty, natives of
Vermont, and of the children born of their union five are living.

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as follows : Emma L., wife of E. L. Kimberly, a retired business
man of Buffalo, New York ; Eva, wife of J. T. Burrows, of Elyria,
Ohio; Florence, living in Buffalo; Henry L., deputy water com-
missioner of Buffalo, New York, and Charles Gilbert, the special
subject of this sketch.

Leaving the public schools at the age of eighteen years Charles
Gilbert Lyon studied civil engineering for a while, and was sub-
sequently engaged in the lumber business at Buffalo for six years.
Moving from that city to Atlanta, Steuben county, Mr. Lyon here
embarked in the lumber and produce business as a member of the
firm of Hatch, Otto and Company, and met with success from the
start. In September, 1909, Mr. Otto retired from the firm, and
its name was changed to Hatch, Lyon and Company, its present
form. Mr. Lyon is connected with other substantial business en-
terprises, being secretary of the United Produce Company, which
has its general office in Atlanta, and of the Steuben Bean Company,
an Atlanta corporation.

Politically Mr. Lyon is a Republican, but he has never desired
public oiBce, his private interests demanding his entire attention.
He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and be-
longs to Liberty Lodge, No. 510, F. & A. M., and to Bath Chapter,
No. 95, R. A. M., of Bath, New York. Religiously he is a trust-
worthy member of the First Presbyterian church.

Mr. Lyon married, August 13, 1891, Minnie L. Hatch, who
was born February 4, 1871, in Atlanta, a daughter of Hiram "W.
Hatch. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lyon,
namely: Hyatt Hatch, born August 23, 1893, is taking a post-
graduate course in Atlanta; Stuart Gilbert, born May 6, 1897;
Harold Maurice, born June 1, 1899 ; Hiram William, born Febru-
ary 9, 1901, and Florence Dorothy, born February 19, 1907.

Frank M. Bertkon. — Standing as one of the most valued ex-
ponents of his profession, that of veterinary surgery, is Dr. Frank
M. Bertron. He comes of stanch New England parentage and his
father, Daniel Bertron, was born in New Jersey in the year 1812,
and his mother, whose maiden name was Melissa Balch, claimed
the Green Mountain state, by the particular tie of birth within its
borders, the date of her nativity being 1822. This worthy couple
united their hands and fortunes in marriage in 1844, and reared
a family of children who earne to enjoy the respect and considera-
tion of all who knew them. They were: Mary E. Bertron, who
became the wife of 0. P. Jeffries; Helen, who married Marcus
Hickock; Oscar, now living in Allegany county; Frank M., our
subject; Roxie, who married Theodore Cobert, and Andrew, who
is a citizen of Pennsylvania. Some two years after their marriage
Daniel Bertron and his wife came to Steuben county and he en-
gaged in blacksmithing, and in Canisteo pursued that useful trade
tintil the time of his demise, which occurred in January, 1876.
Ever busy at his anvil he was a familiar figure and a beloved

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one, and he left this earth with a worthy record. His wife, who
had been an ideal helpmate in all that the term implies, survived
him for a number of years, her death occurring in the month of
January, 1892.

Dr. Prank M. Bertron was born in Steuben county on June 3,
1856, and has passed the greater part of his useful and active life
amid the familiar scenes of his birth. He was educated in the
public schools and attended the Canisteo high schools. He learned
the blacksmith's trade under his father's tutelage when a boy, so
young that it was necessary for him to stand upon a block to work
the bellows, and he came to have a very unusual skill in horse-
shoeing. Later when he look up veterinary surgery his practical
experience in horseshoeing enabled him to place in general prac-
tice many original and humane ideas and improvements in that
line. He was prepared for his profession in the Ontario Veterinary
College, of Toronto, Canada, which he entered in the year 1891,
and from which he was graduated in 1893, in a class numbering
one hundred and sixty-three. This class was a cosmopolitau gath-
ering, comprising students from the States, from Canada and from
various countries across the Atlantic. 1

Since 1893 Dr. Bertron has been in continual practice. His
practice is of an extended character, for he is known far and wide,
being well advertised by the irrefutable fact that he is one of the
best in his profession. He has been frequently called out of the
state upon professional business, his judgment being widely sought.
Mr. Bertron 's citizenship is irreproachable and he can be depended
upon to give his heart and hand to all good causes. He was one
of the first to promote tenjperanee in Canisteo, and he has made
many speeches in the cause, his eloquence and logic forming a
combination difficult to withstand. His heart is in the good work
and he has not hesitated to contribute generously of his own
means to the campaign fund for the promotion of temperance.
Zealous and never-tiring, he is one of those who usually accom-
plish what they set out to do and he is largely responsible for the
fact that Canisteo is now a temperance town.

On November 6, 1879, Dr. Bertron laid the foundation of a
happy home life by his marriage to Hannah M. Dickinson, born
November 9, 1846. She is the daughter of Perry Allen and Phoebe
W. (Denman) Dickinson, residents of Thompson county. The
father was a railroad fireman and was killed at Ithaca while on
duty, a bridge falling beneath his engine. Dr. and Mrs. Bertron
have one daughter, Helen A., born February 27, 1886. She was
educated in the Canisteo High School.

Dr. Bertron is a Republican in politics and he and his family
are attendants at the Presbyterian church, being earnest in their
advocacy of its good works and generous in its support.

Irving Gardner Burch.— A general merchant of Atlanta, Irv-
ing Gardner Burch is numbered among its prosperous and sub-
stantial business men, and is a well-known factor promoting its

HISTORY OF 8TEUBEX COUXTY 035

mercantile prosperity. A man of culture and talent, he is held in
high repute as a citizen, and by his excellent character and straight-
forward business methods has fully established himself in the es-
teem and confidence of his associates, winning and retaining a lu-
crative patronage in this vicinity. A son of Darius J. Burch, he
was born, June 12, 1870, in Western, Oneida county. New York.

Darius J. Burch was born in Rome, New York, and has spent
his entire life of seventy-seven years in Oneida county, being now
retired from agricultural pursuits, which he followed during his
active career. He has been twice married, first to Cynthia Blasier,
a daughter of David and Catherine (Teachout) Blasier, descend-
ants of pioneer families of the Mohawk valley. He married, second,
j\Iarcia Blasier, a sister of his first wife. Of the four children born
of his first union, all daughters, two are living, namely: Emma,
wife of L. S. Parkhurst, of Trenton, New York, and Alice, wife of
G. M. Thomas, of Holland Patent, New York. By his second mar-
riage he was the father of three children, as follows : Archie L.,
living on the home farm at Western, Oneida county; Nellie, de-
ceased, and Irving Gardner, the special subject of this brief
biographical review.

Obtaining his rudimentary education in the public schools
Irving G. Burch subsequently attended Rome Academy for a year,
after which he taught school in his home town for two years. En-
tering then the Fairfield Military Academy, he was graduated from
that institution at the end of a year, and the ensuing year was an
instructor at Gressly College, at McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He
was subsequently honored with the degree of Bachelor of Litera-
ture by Gressly College. Continuing his residence in McKeesport,
;\rr. Burch was principal of the normal department of Douglas
College for a year, and also teacher of oratory.

Deciding to make a change of occupation Mr. Burch located
in Lowville, New York, where he was engaged in mercantile pur-
suits for seven years. Coming then to Steuben county. New York,
he was for three years associated with his brother-in-law, D. D.
Cottrell, as cashier. Since 1907 he has been actively engaged in
business at Atlanta, where he has built up a flourishing trade in
general merchandise, his store being finely equipped and well
stocked. In his political affiliations Mr. Burch is independent, vot-
ing for the best men and measures. Religiously he belongs to the
Methodist church.

Mr. Burch married Clara De Voe, a daughter of the late
Alexander De Voe, who was born in Lewis county. New York, and
there married Mary Staring, a native of the same county. Mrs.
Burch was born in Lewis county, September 7, 1872. Mr. and
Mrs. Burch have one child, Marjorie, born June 6, 1906.

Seymour C. Williamson, M. D.— Occupying an enviable posi-
tion among those who are ably upholding the high prestige of the
medical profession of this section of the Empire state is Dr. Sey-

636 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

mour C Williamson. A veteran of the fraternity, he is also the
kindly friend and adviser of himdreds of families m this com-
munity, and for many years has faithfully devoted himself to re-
lieving the ills and sufferings of humanity.

The father of the Doctor, David WUliamson, was born m Al-
bany county. New York, July 15, 1788, at about the time that the
Revolution had really achieved the independence of the colonies.
His wife whose maiden name was Elizabeth RuUufson, was like-
wise a native of the Empire state, born in Schenectady county in
the year 1798. The father was a farmer and a very prominent
citizen in his day and generation. He served as sheriff of Albany-
county for one term and was always active and influential m poli-
tics his word being of weight both because of its common sense
and truthfulness. While fulfilling the duties of the shrievalty it
was necessary upon one occasion for him to make a long journey
on horseback into Canada, over Indian trails and terrible roads,
and the fact that his business was of a financial nature and re-
quired him to carry a large sum of money in gram bags slung
over his horse's shoulders did not add to the safety or the personal
calmness of the pilgrimage.

In the year 1837 David Williamson moved to Steuben county
and bought two hundred acres of wild forest land, upon which he
settled with his family. The livestock of the household, part ol
which he shipped by canal and the balance drove overland, con-
sisted of six cows, four horses and ten sheep. Upon his newly
acquired property he erected a log house, and in this locality and
amid the typical pioneer surroundings seven boys and seven girls
were reared to useful manhood and womanhood. With the in-
dustry and thrift of his race he cleared one hundred acres of his
new land and sowed it to wheat, realizing fine crops and good
prices, and in time he became one of the leading agriculturists of
the locality. He was so well pleased with this favored section as
to make it his permanent home, and it was here that his death
occurred in 1866. The wife and mother died in 1876.

Dr. Seymour C. Williamson was bom in Steuben county July
15, 1838, and spent his boyhood and youth upon his father's farm.
At the age of seventeen he became a man in all but years, leaving
the farm, engaging in the business of sawing lumber for four years
and attending school in the winter months. He then married,
moved to Wisconsin, and cultivated a rented farm for another four
years. His next step was to settle in Cameron, that state, and
conduct a mercantile business until 1879, when he decided upon a
professional career in the field of medicine and surgery. Entering
the University of the City of New York he pursued a thorough
course and upon graduating from that institution in 1885 began
practice in his native town of Canisteo. Although not trained to
his profession from youth Dr. Williamson had the advantage from
the start of wide worldly experience and a mature judgment; the
result has been a substantial advancement from first to last, and

HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 637

he has already passed a quarter century of well-considered and
notable activity in his chosen field.

Frederick D. Williamson, M. D., the son, is also a practicing
physician; in fact, entered the ranks of the fraternity in 1891.
He is a graduate of the Medical University of New York and
stands high in his profession.

Dr. Seymour C. Williamson is one of the prominent Masons
of Steuben county, being a leading member of the chapter and
commandery. He also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. To round out his professional record it may also be said
that in addition to carrying along a large private practice he has
served as coroner of Steuben county for four years and is medical
examiner for a number of standard life insurance companies. He
is a Republican in polities and a Presbyterian in his religious faith
—a man who can be implicitly depended upon, whether considered
in the light of his profession, his citizenship or his every-day
morality.

Harry L. Allen, one of Hornell's leading lawyers and a citi-
zen of much worth and prominence, is a native of Alfred, Allegany
county, New York, born June 1, 1872. Henry Allen, his father,
was born there and has lived there all his life. The family is of
English extraction. Its first representative in Allegany county
arrived about 1815. Henry Allen married Henrietta Rice, a na-
tive of Raymond, Potter county, Pennsylvania. Her father, Samuel
Rice, was born near Cortland, Cortland county. New York, of
mixed French and German ancestry. Sh6 was living when this
work was in preparation.

Mr. Allen was his parents' only child. He spent his youth
on his father's farm and in the district school near his home. At
eighteen he entered the Hornell High School, from which he was
graduated in 1891. Later he was duly graduated from Alfred
University. In 1893 he took up the study of law, with Beard and
Griffin as his preceptors. He was admitted to the bar of the state
of New York in 1896 and began the practice of his profession in
Hornell. For a time he was connected with the office of Judge
Frank H. Robinson. Later he was identified with the practice of
Seward A. Simons at Buffalo, New York. Returning to Hornell,
he practiced awhile in^ association with C. B. Beard. Since 1904
he has maintained a successful individual practice.

Mr. Allen is a Knight Templar Mason. His political alliances
are Democratic. For six years he did great credit to himself and
to the community as a justice of the peace. He married Miss
Belle Spink, daughter of William H. and Mary (Whiting) Spink,
in 1898. As a lawyer Mr. Allen is conscientious and persistent, a
safe counsellor and an able advocate. As a citizen he is progres-
sive and public-spirited, ready at all times to aid to the extent of his
ability any measure which in his good judgment promises to ad-
vance the well-being of any considerable number of his fellow
townsmen.

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Heney Miller.— The great empire of Germany has contributed
a most valuable element to the cosmopolitan social fabric of our
American republic, which has had much to gain and nothing to lose
from this source. Among those of German birth and ancestry who
have attained success and precedence in connection with industrial
and business affairs in Steuben county is Mr. Miller, whose interests
are of broad scope and importance and who is now serving as
mayor of Hammondsport. He has been in the most emphatic sense
the architect of his own fortune, as he came to America when a
mere boy and without financial resources. He has worked his way
upward to a position as one of the essentially representative busi-
ness men of Steuben county and his sterling attributes of char-
acter have gained to him the unqualified esteem of his fellow men.

Henry Miller was born at Friedewald, Prussia, on the 12th
of September, 1868, and is a son of Conrad and Catherine (Fech-
ter) Miller, both of whom now reside in Potter county, Pennsyl-
vania, where they took up their residence in 1888 and where the
father has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He is now living
virtually retired, having attained to the age of seventy-five years.
(1910) and his devoted wife is sixty-nine years of age. They are
members of the Lutheran church and of their children seven are
living, namely: Henry, George, William, Peter, Conrad, Martha
and Mary. Martha is the wife of Conrad Rudolph and Mary is
the wife of Henry Mulfelman. Henry Miller was reared to the
age of fifteen years in his native land, to whose schools he is in-
debted for his early educational training. At the age noted, in
1883, he severed the ties which bound him to home and fatherland
and came alone to America, where he joined an uncle who had
previously established his home in Germania, Potter county, Penn-
sylvania. By industry and good management he gradually made
his way toward the goal of definite success and for a number of
years he was actively identified with the lumbering industry in
the south and west. In 1901 he established his home at Ham-
mondsport, where he has since resided and maintained his busi-
ness headquarters. He is one of the stockholders of the Henry
Curtis Company, which is engaged in the manufacturing of the
Curtis aeroplanes, and he is also a stockholder in the Hammonds-
port Cooperage Company, the Schwarzenbach Brewing Company,
the International Correspondence School, the New Jersey Steel
Company and other important corporations.

In polities Mr. Miller is aligned as a stanch supporter of the
cause of the Republican party and he is known as one of the most
enterprising and public-spirited citizens of Hammondsport. The
high esteem in which he is held in the community is indicated by
the fact that on the 15th of April, 1909, he was elected mayor of
the city, in which position he has since continued to serve and in
which he is giving a most admirable and progressive administra-
tion of the affairs of the municipal government. He is a member
of the Lutheran church and is affiliated with Hammondsport

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Lodge No. 559, Free & Accepted Masons, Bath Chapter, No. 95,
Royal Arch Masons, Ju Commandery No. 17, Knights Templars,
at Penn Yan, and Damascus Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in the city of Rochester. He also
holds membership in Hornell Lodge of the Benevolent & Protec-
tive Order of Elks, and in Hammondsport Tent of the Improved
Order of Redmen, in which he is treasurer. The popular mayor
of Hammondsport is a bachelor.

Feed William Tekby.— Wide-awake and enterprising, ever
alert to take advantage of offered opportunities, Fred Williani
Terry holds an excellent position among the leading business men
of Steuben county, being properously engaged in mercantile pur-
suits at Atlanta, as a dealer in wagons, carriages and vehicles of
all kinds, having a substantial trade. He was born in Atlanta, New
York, November 3, 1873, and is an excellent representative of the
native-bom citizens of this section of the state.

William Terry, Mr. Terry's father, was born seventy -two years
ago and having located in Atlanta, New York, in early days has
since followed his trade of a stone mason in this vicinity, and now
makes his home with his son Fred. He married for his first wife
a IMiss Avery, who died in early womanhood, leaving one child,
Victoria, who is the widow of the late C. E. Partridge, and has
one daughter, Lillian Partridge, a bright girl of ten summers. He
married second, in 1872, Sarah Nickoson, who was born seventy-
one years ago, a daughter of William 0. Nickoson, the first station
agent at Atlanta for the Erie Railroad Company, and his wife,
Rhoda (Phelps) Nickoson. Three children were born of their
union, namely: Fred W., the special subject of this sketch; Lil-
lian, wife of R. W. Lander, an Atlanta merchant, and Effie, wife
of M. 0. Hill, a hardware merchant in Rochester, New York.

At the age of seventeen, having previously attended school
regularly for ten years, Fred William Terry entered the employ
of William T. Cornish, with whom he remained as a clerk for
seven years. Buying then his present establishment, Mr. Terry has
since carried on a thriving mercantile business, making a spe-
cialty of dealing in carriages. He has other interests, however,
being an extensive dealer in real estate and loans, and is finan-
cially associated with various enterprises.

Politically Mr. Terry is a straightforward Republican, but
has never had official aspirations. Fraternally he is a member of
the K. 0. T. M., of North Cohocton, of the M. W. A., of the I. 0.
O. F., of Atlanta, and of the Atlanta Lodge of the Daughters of
Rebekah. Mr. Terry married in 1904 Leona Cornish, who was
born in Atlanta, Steuben county. New York, March 31, 1885, a
daughter of the late William Cornish. Mr. and Mrs. Terry have
two children, namely: Conant, aged five years, and Harry, aged
three years. Mrs. Terry is a valued member of the Methodist
Episcopal church and an active worker in the Ladies' Aid Society,
and in its Missionary Society.

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Joseph Leonard Waugh, who is engaged in the insurance busi-
ness in the thriving village of Cohocton, where he is also incumbent
of the office of justice of the peace, is a citizen who commands a
secure place in popular confidence and esteem and he is entitled
to definite consideration in this historical work.

Joseph Leonard Waugh was born in Oneida county, New York,
on the 21st of October, 1844, and is a son of Kev. John and Char-
lotte (Rogers) Waugh. Rev. John Waugh was born in the city
of Carlisle, Cumberland county, England, on the 14th of March,
1814. He was four years old at the time of the family removal to
the United States and after due preliminary discipline he entered
Brown University, in which he took a partial course. He carefully
prepared himself for the work of the ministry and was ordained
as a clergyman of the Presbyterian church. He was for a time
pastor of the church of this denomination at Mount Hope, Orange
county. New York; for fourteen years he held a pastorate at
Sauquoit, Oneida county; for an equal period he was engaged in
the work of his high calling at Canton, St. Lawrence county; the
following nine years he held the pastoral charge of the Presbyterian
church at Carthage, Jefferson county; and in 1878 he came to
Steuben county and assumed the pastorate of the church of his
denomination in Cohocton, where he served for fifteen years. He
was a man of marked intellectual ability and deepest piety, and
his labors in the ministry were marked by the utmost zeal and
consecration. He passed the closing years of his life in Cohocton,
where he died on the 20th of August, 1907.

On the 3d of May, 1842, was solemnized the marriage of Rev.
John Waugh to Miss Charlotte Rogers, who was born at Laurens,
Otsego county. New York, on the 6th of November, 1817, and who
was a daughter of Oliver G. and Deborah (Lewis) Rogers. She
was summoned to the life eternal on the 3d of February, 1899, and
her memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of her
gentle and gracious influence. Of the five children four are living
and of the number Joseph Leonard, subject of this review, is the
eldest. Dr. Theodore R. is a representative physician and surgeon
of St. Albans, Vermont; Ella Charlotte died at the age of eight
years ; Rev. Arthur J., a clergyman of the Presbyterian church, is
pastor of a church at Montasata, Sullivan county. New York; and
Ida is the wife of Dr. Thomas B. Fowler, of Springville, Erie
county, this state.

J. Leonard Waugh gained his early educational discipline in
the common schools, and supplemented this by effective prepara-
tory work in Canton Academy, at Canton, New" York, after leaving
which institution he matriculated in Hamilton College, at Canton,
in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1867 and
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The ensu-
ing three years he was a successful and popular teacher in the
public schools of his native state, and in 1873 he was graduated in
Auburn Theological Seminary, after which he was ordained to the

HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 643

ministry of the Presbyterian church. He assumed the pastorate
of the church at Brasher Palls, St. Lawrence county, where he
remained until 1879, and in 1881 he came to Cohocton, where he
was engaged in the printing and publishing business for two years.
He then established a general insurance agency and to this line of
enterprise he has devoted his attention during the long intervening
years, within which he has built up a large and representative
business as an underwriter. Though he has retired from the min-
istry he has continued to be a most earnest and devoted worker in
the church and he is at the present time an elder of the Presby-
terian church in his home village. He commands unequivocal con-
fidence and regard, and none has shown greater loyalty and public
spirit. He is affiliated with Liberty Lodge No. 510, Free & Accepted
Masons, with which he has been identified since 1882. In politics
Mr. Waugh is found arrayed as a stalwart supporter of the princi-
ples and policies of the Republican party, and he has given effective
service in behalf of its cause. He has served as delegate to the
county and district conventions of his party. In 1883 he was ap-
pointed justice of the peace, and in 1885 he was duly elected to this
office, of which he has served in all eighteen years.

Samuel E. Quackenbush, dealer in insurance, real estate and
loans at Corning, New York, has been identified with the business
activity of this place since 1903, having come here at that time
from West Caton, where he was for some time engaged in general
merchandising. Previous to that, from 1884 to 1886, he was in
Corning, in the employ of J. H. Huber, grocer, and the following
year owned and operated a farm adjoining the town of Lindley.
On his return to Corning in 1903, he engaged with the Meltby
Company, with which he was connected one year, and afterward
was with L. T. Goodrich & Company, incorporated, dealers in books
and stationery. This last named company he left to engage in busi-
ness for himself.

Mr. Quackenbush was born in Caton, Steuben county. New
York, April 30, 1858, son of William and Polly (Gardner) Quack-
enbush, natives of Otsego county, New York, the former born in
1833, the latter, in 1835. When he was four years old the death
of his mother broke up the home and he was taken into the house-
hold of his cousin at Caton, near Corning. His father was en-
gaged in lumbering at Mitchell Station, Pennsylvania, and there
young Quackenbush remained until he was twenty-one years of
age, and until he was twenty-four was engaged in farm work.
His early education was limited to the common schools, but after
he was thirty he took a course in commercial law and thus fitted
himself to engage successfully in his present line of business.

Mr. Quakenbush has been twice married, January 9, 1879, he
wedded Miss Mary E. Barnard, daughter of Gershom W. Barnard
of Corning, and to her he gives the credit for much of the success
he has attained. She died in July, 1895. The two children born to

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them are Nina A. Quackenbush Ammerman and Earl B. Quaeken-
bush, the former a resident of Corning and the latter of Ithaca. On
February 20, 1901, he married Miss Louise I. Borst, daughter of
John and Nancy (Van Gelder) Borst, of Painted Post, Steuben
county, both now deceased, her mother having died May 28, 1899.

Politically Mr. Quackenbush has since he became a voter af-
filiated with the Republican party, and has always taken an active
interest in public affairs and frequently filled public office. While
a resident of West Caton he established a post office, was appointed
postmaster and served as such for a number of years. Also while
in that town he was two years supervisor and two terms justice of
the peace. In 1900 he was a delegate to the state convention at
Saratoga which placed in nomination for governor of New York
Benjamin Odell of Newberg, who was elected and served one term.
In the fall of 1909 ilr. Quackenbush was elected alderman of the
Third ward, and he is now serving as such, and also he is now
serving his third year as a member of the Republican City Com-
mittee, of which he is secretary.

He and his wife are identified with the Methodist Episcopal
church.

David F. Smith. — This prominent farmer and citizen of Steu-
ben county was bom on his father's farm near Bath August 3,
1860, a son of George Smith. George Smith came to the United
States from Scotland when he was sixteen years old with Matthew
Smith, his father, the grandfather of David F. and Nancy Smith.
Matthew, a widower, married Harriet Richardson and settled on
the Smith farm near Savona. The land was not then all cleared
and the improvements on it were primitive and incomplete. By
years of hard work Mr. Smith developed the place into a first
class farm. George Smith had the farm in his turn and died there
in 1908, age(J eighty-four years. He married Jane Foster, who
is living with their son David, now advanced to the age of eighty-
seven years. She was born in Ireland and was brought, compara-
tively young, to America by her widowed mother, Nancy (Atkin-
son) Foster. They settled in Bath and she later became acquainted
with and married Mr. Smith.

David F. Smith went to school till he was seventeen years old
and was reared to farming. Since his father's death he has suc-
cessfully managed three large farms belonging to the estate. He
is not only one of the most extensive farmers in the county, but
one of the largest shippers of stock, giving special attention to
sheep. A man of public spirit, he is naturally interested in all
that pertains to the welfare and development of the town and
county. A Republican, he is active in the local work of his party
and has been elected twice to the office of assessor of taxes, which
he has filled with rare judgment and fidelity. He has also served
several terms on the Board of Education, at one time as president.

Mr. Smith married, in 1882, ]\Iiss Emma Stowell, born in

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Wayne county, New York, in 1862, a daughter of DwigM Stowell,
a carpenter by trade. Mr. Stowell married Elizabeth Hayes and
they were both dead when Mrs. Smith was ten years old, and she,
their only child, was reared by her mother 's brother. The following
facts concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Smith will be of
interest in this connection: Mabel Zenobia is the wife of Dr. J.
Floyd Bowman, of Irvington, New Jersey, and she has a son,
Floyd Smith Bowman, aged about one year. She is a member of
St. Thomas' Episcopal church, Bath. Before her marriage she
was graduated at the close of the prescribed course at Bellevue
Hospital, New York. George, the only son of David Smith, is
dead. Edna Maud is a teacher in the public school at Irvington,
New Jersey.

Mr. Smith is a charter member of the Savona lodge of the
Independant Order of Odd Fellows and has passed all the chairs
of his lodge and encampment and is now a past grand commander.
He is a member also of the Grange. He is a Baptist, devoted to
his church and all its interests.

j\Iiss Nancy Smith, daughter of George Smith and sister of
David F. Smith, was born on the Smith homestead near Savona
April 14, 1862, and is living on one of the farms of the Smith es-
tate, which, with a local superintendent, is under the general man-
agement of David F. Smith. It has been increased in size to a
farm of one hundred and ten acres. Miss Smith is a member of
the Episcopal church, active in its work and generous in its sup-
port. She is a woman of rare good sense and of a charitable dis-
position, which leads her into avenues of usefulness and wins her
many warm friends.

Robert J. Miller, plumber, conducts one of the leading biisi-
ness interests of Hornell and is one of the admirable army of the
self-made, having developed through his own efforts into a man of
character, standing and substance. He is a native of the Empire
state, his birth having occurred in Rochester, New York, September
1, 1866, and he is of Irish lineage, combining in himself all the
best traits of that versatile and interesting nation. His father,
William Miller, was born in Ireland in the year 1816 and came to
the land of the stars and stripes in his early days. In the country
of his adoption he followed contracting throughout the active years
of his life, his death occurring July 12, 1905, when almost ninety
years of age. The subject's mother, whose maiden name was Mary
Courtney, was born in Rochester, New York, in 1830, and was
married in that city some two decades later. The progeny of this
worthy pair were: Emma Miller, who married Sidney White;
Ada, who became the wife of Jermia O'Brien and makes her home
in Rochester; William and Robert J., of Hornell.

Robert J. Miller received his early educational discipline in
the public schools of Rochester, graduating from the grammar
school. When still quite young he faced the serious issues of life

646 HISTORY OF STEITBEX COI'XTY

and learned the trade of plumbing, which he has followed for
twenty-four years. In 1895 he removed from Rochester to Hornell
and the fifteen years of his residence here have been characterized
by the greatest success. He enjoys the confidence of his associates
and his business record is irreproachable. He gives his faith and
suffrage to the men and measures of the Democratic party. He
has always been active in politics, desiring no office for himself,
but standing steadfast for his party and his friends. Beginning as
a poor boy, with ' ' a fair field and no favors, ' ' he has overcome all
obstacles, and is to-day one of Hornell's prosperous men. He
finds no small amount of pleasure and profit in his lodge relations,
which extend to the ancient and august Masonic order and the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He and his family are
Episcopal in religious faith.

In 1899 Mr. Miller took as his wife Miss Metta Northrop, a
daughter of David Northrop and a native of Syracuse. This
union has been blessed by the birth of three children. Ada, the
eldest, was born in 1891, is a graduate of Hornell high school and
has considerable musical ability, which is under cultivation. There
are also two sons, Willie, bom in 1898, and Robert J., born in 1900.

Emmett F. Stone has gained prestige and definite success as
one of the representative farmers and stock dealers of his native
county and resides on the old homestead farm, in Pulteney town-
ship, which was the place of his birth. Here he was ushered into
the world on the 14th of February, 1854, and he is a son of James
D. and Jane H. Stone, both of whom were likewise born and reared
in the state of New York. The father continued to reside on the
old homestead until his death which occurred in the year 1905 and
the mother was summoned to the life eternal in 1906, both having
been earnest members of the Free Baptist church.

Emmett F. Stone was reared to the sturdy discipline of the
farm and early began to lend his aid in its work, in the inean-
while duly availing himself of the advantages of the district schools.
He has never found it expedient to sever his allegiance to the great
basic industry of agriculture and shortly after his marriage he
purchased a farm west of the old homestead, where he not only as-
sumed the management of his own place but also had supervision of
the cultivation of the old homestead on which he was born. This
latter property he purchased after the death of his parents and
his landed estate now comprises one hundred and ninety acres. He
has made the best of improvements upon his farm which may well
be considered one of the model places of the county and on this
place he set out one of the first Concord vineyards in Pulteney
township. This he has developed into one of the best in this sec-
tion and in addition to the raising of grapes and diversified crops
he has made a specialty of stock-growing. During the past sixteen
years he has also been engaged in business in the buying and ship-
ping of live stock and in this line of enterprise he has built up a

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large and prosperous business. He is one of the substantial and
enterprising farmers and stock-growers of Steuben county and his
attractive homestead gives every evidence of thrift and prosperity.
Though never imbued with ambition for public office Mr. Stone
takes a loyal interest in all that touches the welfare of the com-
munity and his political allegiance is given to the Democratic party.
Both he and his wife hold membership in the Freewill Baptist
church, of which his parents also were consistent members.

In the year 1887 Mr. Stone was united in marriage to Miss
Belle Baker, who was born at Hornell, this county, and they have
four children,— Clara H., Jennie G., James D. and Dorothy G.
Clara H. was graduated in the high school in the city of Syracuse,
where she is now a student in the Syracuse University; Jennie G.
was graduated in the high school at Prattsburg, Steuben county,
and the two younger children are now attending the local schools.

Geoege a. Manning, proprietor of marble quarries in Georgia
and operator in mines in Nevada, is one of the best known men in
Steuben county.

Mr. Manning was born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 14, 1862,
and here was reared and educated. In 1900 he married Miss Nellie
M. Horton, who was born at Campbell, a daughter of Charles T.
Horton, a native of Steuben county, whose father was a pioneer
at Campbell.

Mrs. Manning was reared and educated in Campbell, but in
her girlhood went to Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Manning have their summer home at Campbell
on her father's old homestead. They are widely acquainted
throughout the county and their coming home, as they call it, is
welcomed by many who from time to time enjoy their generous
yet refined hospitality. Mr. Manning is a member of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks.

William Everett Palmer.— The prominent physician and
surgeon of Steuben county whose name is above was born in Cort-
land county. New York, June 30, 1838. Norman Palmer, his
father, was a native of Bennington, Vermont. He made his living
as a farmer, beginning on a pioneer farm in Cortland county. His
father came, seeking better opportunities, when Norman was about
four years old, bringing with him his wife, Abigail (Dodge) Pal-
mer, and such of their children as were born in Vermont. This
worthy couple came of old New England families long represented
in Vermont and were among the early settlers in central New
York. Dr. Palmer's American ancestry is traced to a Palmer who
came over from England in 1640 and settled at Charlestown, now
a suburb of the city of Boston, Massachusetts.

Norman Palmer was reared and educated in Cortland county,
New York. In 1853, with his wife and five children, he went to
Wisconsin and located at Milton, Rock county. From there he

648 TiISTOEY 01 STEUBEN COUNTY

removed to Dodge Center, Dodge county, Minnesota. The last
fifteen years of his life were spent with his daughter, wife of Dr.
H. R. Maxon, at Nortonville, Kansas, where he died, aged ninety-
three. His wife was ninety-one at the time of her death. They
reared a family of five children, all of whom were living when this
book was in preparation. Doctor Palmer is the eldest. His
brother N. P. Palmer lives at Milton Junction, Dodge county, Wis-
consin. His sister, Mrs. Olive A. Maxon, lives at Nortonville, Kan-
sas. His brother Albert L. is a citizen of California. His sister
Avaline A. lives at Dodge Center, Minnesota, the wife of a Mr.
Ellis.

Doctor Palmer passed his childhood and youth in Cortland
county. New York. When he was fourteen years old he went to
Wisconsin, and he remained there until he was twenty-five. His
education was begun in public schools in his native county and
continued in those of Milton, Y\'iseonsin. In time he became a stu-
dent in what is now known as Milton University. For ten years
he taught school in New Jersey, closing his work in that state at
Salem, Salem county, ' ' South Jersey, ' ' where he was superintendent
of the city schools in 1870-73. From 1873 to 1879 he was a teacher
in public schools in Rhode Island. He had now decided to become
a physician and surgeon, and after three years' diligent study of
medicine and its allied sciences he was graduated in 1882 from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city.

AVithin a few months after he received his diploma as an M. D.
Doctor Palmer located at Hornell and there, practically, made his
professional beginning. He soon became in demand and had no
difficulty in working up a lucrative practice. He has remained
there, adding year by year to his success. Among medical men of
the Southern Tier he is well known through his membership of
Hornell Medical. Society, the Steuben County Medical Society and
the New York Medical Society. Of the Hornell society, known
officially as the Hornell Medical and Surgical Association, he has
been president. He is now responsibly connected with the Steuben
Sanitarium. He has from time to time been appointed medical
examiner for some of the great life insurance companies.

In 1864 Doctor Palmer married Miss Margaret C. Noble, of
Shiloh, Cumberland county, New Jersey, a daughter of Mark S.
and Mary Noble. Though born at Shiloh, New Jersey, Mrs. Palmer
was married in Wisconsin. She has reared three children. Ivanna
J. is supervisor of music in the city schools of New York city.
Jessie M. is the wife of Professor F. G. Bates, a graduate of Cor-
nell University and of Columbia University, now connected with
the University of Kansas at Lawrence. Everett C, who was edu-
cated at Alfred University and at Cornell University, is employed
as a draughtsman in the great establishment of Cottrell & Sons,
Westerly, Rhode Island.

In his politics Dr. Palmer is a good Repiiblican, but he would
vote for a good Democrat for a local office as against an unpromis-

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ing Eepublican. He has pronounced views on all national questions
and believes his ideas will be better promoted by the party of his
choice than they could possibly be by any rival party. He is a
Seventh Day Baptist and was one of the founders and has always
been one of the most dependable supporters of the Hornell organiza-
tion of that denomination.

Frank Caul,kings, M. D.— In the male, line of descent this
popular citizen and medical man is of English extraction. Poi-ter
Caulkings, his father, a native of the state of New York, was a con-
tractor and builder, living in Wales, Erie county, New York, but
doing business exclusively in Buffalo. He married Angeline Rossell
Andrews, also of New York state birth, and they had two sons. Mr.
Caulkings died in 1850, aged about thirty-five years, and his widow
survived to celebrate the eighty-fourth anniversary ,of her birth,
with a prospect that she will see several more anniversaries of that
event.

Doctor Caulkings was born in Wales, Erie county, New York,
October 4, 1849, the eldest of his parents' two sons, and was about
two years old when his father died. He began to support himself
when he was nine years old, working at anything that he could
find to do that was honest and would bring remuneration in any
available shape. Notwithstanding the disadvantage at which he
was as compared with other boys of his age, he gained a fair com-
mon-school education, and he was only a mere lad when he began in
an irregular way to study medicine. He was graduated from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons at Buffalo Jime 6, 1884. Later
he was graduated from the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College
and also received an honorary degree from the Hahnemann Medi-
cal College of that city. He practiced in Wyoming county five
years and moved to Erie county in 1880, where he continued his
practice in Buffalo and vicinity until 1903, when he came to
Hornell. He makes a specialty of chronic diseases, for the treat-
ment of which he makes his own remedies in his own laboratories.

Medicine alone does not claim all of Doctor Caulkings' atten-
tion. He is interested in a number of patents for automobiles, in-
eluding springs of an original conception, some of which he is hav-
ing manufactured on royalty. He is the owner of some good proper-
ty and has a real interest in Hornell and its prosperity. On June
25, 1902, he married Alice M. Tefft, daughter of Stephen E. and
Caroline E. (Jenkins) Tefft and a native of Springville, Erie
county. New York, who was educated at Griffith Institute and at
the New York State Normal School at Buffalo. Before her mar-
riage Mrs. Caulkings had been a teacher twelve years, eight of them
in her home schools at Springville.

Eliz;abeth D. Hunt. — It is a matter of much gratification to
be able to offer in this publication a brief record concerning Miss
Hunt, who has been a resident of Steuben county from the time of

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her nativity and who is a member of one of the old and honored
families of the county.

Elizabeth Dudley Hunt was born in Bath township, Steuben
county, on the 17th of October, 1834, and is a daughter of Otis and
Louisa (Fluent) Hunt, the former of whom was born in Benning-
ton county, Vermont, on the 4th of November, 1804, and the latter
of whom was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1803. Otis Hunt was a
son of Ezekiel and Lavina (Thayer) Hunt, the former of whom
was born March 3, 1772, and the latter, December 22, 1775. Their
marriage was solemnized on the 28th of February, 1796, and both
were representative of stanch old New England stock, the respec-
tive families having been founded in America in the Colonial
epoch of our national history. Ezekiel Hunt came to Steuben
county in 1820 and located in Bath township, where he reclaimed
a farm from the wilderness and where both he and his devoted wife
passed the residue of their lives. He was summoned to eternal rest
at the age of seventy-seven years and his wife passed away at the
age of seventy-six years. They were numbered among the sterling
pioneers of the county and their names merit a place on its records,
as they did well their part in connection with the development and
upbuilding of this favored section of the old Empire state. In
1834 Governor Marcy appointed Otis Hunt to the office of lieu-
tenant colonel of a regiment of New York artillery, and in this
capacity he gave effective service. Colonel Otis Hunt, father of
her whose name initiates this review, was about sixteen years of
age at the time of the family removal from the old Green Moun-
tain state to Steuben county, and here he was actively identified
\\ith agricultural pursuits during his youth. In 1841 he became as-
sociated with R. B. Stewart in the gerenal merchandise business
in the village of Bath, and with this line of enterprise he here con-
tinued to be identified for a period of five years. Within this time
he also served as deputy sheriff and he was superintendent of the
county house and farm for five years. He ever held secure van-
tage place in the confidence and esteem of the community and is
well remembered by its older citizens. He finally removed to Liv-
ingston county, this state, where he was engaged in the hotel busi-
ness for some time. In 1861 he removed to Illinois and located at
Dixon, where he passed the residue of his life and where his death
occurred on the 2d of November, 1882. His wife passed away in
1865, and of the five children Elizabeth D., of this review, is the
only one living. Otis Hunt was a stanch Democrat in his political
allegiance. Mrs. Hunt was a daughter of Jeremiah and Mehitabel
(Dudley) Fluent, both of whom were natives of Maine, whence
they came to Steuben county in an early day. Mr. Fluent be-
came one of the prominent farmers and influential citizens of the
county, and here both he and his wife continued to maintain their
home until death. The names of the deceased children of Otis and
Louisa (Fluent) Hunt are: Barbara A., Cordilia, Kerin P. and

HISTORY OF STEIIBEX COUXTY G53

Louisa il. Miss Elizabeth D. Hunt now resides with her nephew,
Otis Moores, who is a son of her eldest sister, Barbara A.

Miss Hunt was afforded the advantages of the schools of her
native county and remained with her parents until their death,
after which she lived with her sisters, having gone to Mobile, Ala-
bama, where she was with her sister for a period of twelve years.
She then, in 1903, returned to Steuben county, and has since
maintained her home in Bath, where she is surrounded by a circle
of leal and loyal friends and where she finds pleasure and solace
in the gracious memories and associations of the past. She re-
tains a vital interest in social and religious affairs and is a devout,
member of the Universalist church. It may be noted that her uncle,
Phineas Hunt, was long engaged in foreign missionary work, as a
representative of the Presbyterian church, and that he died in
China.

Edwin J. Carpenter, M. D., who is prominently identified
with the medical profession of Corning, New York, was born and
reared in the county in which he lives, and he comes of a family
long resident in New York. Dr. Carpenter's grandparents, Tim-
othy and Nancy (Shaw) Carpenter, were born in the "Empire
State," the former in Chautauqua county, March 27, 1800, and the
latter, in Yates county, March 5, 1805. They were married on Sep-
tember 10, 1824, in Cameron, New York, by Squire Mason, and
with the passing years became the parents of a large family of
sons and daughters who grew up and scattered and became useful
and respected citizens. Their children in order of birth are as
follows: Ann, born June 13, 1825, married a Mr. Jost; Hiram,
born September 25, 1826, is a resident of Minnesota; Alva, born
October 26, 1828, was for many years a resident of Avon, New
York, and died in 1905 ; John, born March 13, 1833, died in Mis-
sissippi in 1909; Jane, born April 14, 1835, is now Mrs. Brink
and resides at Custer, Ohio; Phoebe, born December 6, 1837, mar-
ried a Mr. Smith and lives in Minnesota; Uri, born in Cameron,
New York, June 30, 1841, died October 8, 1908 ; Fidelia, born Au-
gust 3, 1843, married a Mr. Fergown* and lived in Wisconsin,
where her death occurred in 1908. Grandfather Timothy Carpen-
ter died December 29, 1882, at the age of eighty-two years and
six months.

Uri Carpenter married Frances Merchant, who was born March'
24, 1843, and died June 25, 1905. They were the parents of two
children, Edwin J., born July 1, 1864, and Charles A., born in
1868. The father was a farmer and lumberman, and at one time
had charge of a veneer factory at Bath. His whole life was spent
in Steuben county. Charles A. is a resident of Kansas, at this
writing employed as foreman of construction work.

Edwin J. Carpenter, after completing his studies in the Bath
schools, engaged as teacher in the rural districts, and in this man-
ner paved his way to a higher education. In 1888 he entered the

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University of Bufealo, in whicli he pursued a medical course, and
where he graduated in 1891. Immediately after his graduation he
settled down to the practice of his profession at Corning, and here
for nearly two decades he has successfully conducted a general
practice, making a specialty of surgery, and not infrequently being
called in council. Dr. Carpenter is a member of the Corning
Medical Association, the Keuka Lake Medical and Surgical Asso-
ciation, the Steuben County Medical Society, the New York State
Medical Society and the American National Medical Association.
He is United States pension examiner and surgeon, and for three
years has been city coroner. ■ . . -o

Politically Dr. Carpenter has always affiliated with the Ke-
publican party, and while he has never been a politician he has
maintained an interest in public affairs and in many ways his in-
fluence has been felt for the advancement of the public good. At
this time he is president of the School Board, of Avhich he has been
a member nine years. He is a member in good standing of both
the F. and A. M. and the I. 0. 0. F., and he is a trustee of the
Congregational church, with which he has for years been identified.

On October 12, 1885, Dr. Carpenter married Miss Helen L.
Abel, a daughter of Harrison Abel of Thurston, New York, and
they have two children, Edwin J. Jr. and Iri A.

Miss Elizabeth A. Read.— One of the enterprising and in-
telligent women farmers of Bath township, Steuben county. New
York, is Miss Elizabeth A. Read, a native of Bath, New York,
born April 8, 1839. She is a daughter of Daniel Van and Louisa
(Smith) Read, the former born near Hope, New Jersey, in 1804.
Daniel Read removed to Bath, New York, at the age of twenty
years and spent the remainder of his life in farming in that vicin-
ity. He spent eight years at a place called Dublin, in the town of
Howard, and then removed to the present Read homestead, where
he died in 1885. He was very much interested in public affairs
and was a prominent Democrat. At the age of twenty-two years
he married Louisa Smith, born in Massachusetts April 21, 1804,
daughter of Stephen and Mary (Fenunder) Smith, who came to
Bath township in 1812 and settled on a farm. Her parents were of
Scotch and Irish descent and the family included many clergy-
men. Mr. Read's father, John Read, spent all his life in New
Jersey, where he was a farmer.

The children born to Daniel V. Read and his wife were:
Stephen and Joseph, deceased,— both dying while soldiers in the
Union Army, George, a farmer living near Howard; Franklin, a
farmer living at Bath ; Mary L., wife of Oliver Wheeler, a farmer
of North Urbana ; Elizabeth A. ; and Samantha, deceased wife of
A. J. Read, of Mineola, Kansas.

Elizabeth Read attended the public school until she was
seventeen years old. She taught in the schools near her home
until 1865, then attended Oberlin (Ohio) College two years and

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then taught in Illinois two years. Returning to Steuben county
she kept house for a brother eight years and then cared for her
parents during the rest of their lives, attending to the conduct of
their farm. She now carries on general farming and stock raising
on the homestead.

Miss Read is well known and highly esteemed in the com-
munity and is much interested in all movements for the common
welfare. She is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and active in Sunday-school and missionary work. She
was a charter member of the W. C. T. U. at Kanona and is a past
president of the same.

William F. Schultz.— One of Hornell's substantial citizens, a
plumber by trade and a business man whose motto, "anything
worth doing at all is worth doing well, ' ' strictly lived up to, has
given him high standing in the business world, is William F.
Schultz. He is also prominent in lodge circles, his fraternal rela-
tions extending to several of the largest organizations. Mr. Schultz
is of German extraction, both of his parents having been born in
the Fatherland. William Schultz, the father, whose name the
subject received, was born in 1821, and the mother, Amelia Schultz,
was born in 1818. They were married in Germany, but shortly
after their union followed the example set by so many of those
with whom they had been associated and crossed the Atlantic to
claim their share of the rich opportunities offered by the New
World. This was in the early fifties. They located in Springfield,
Massachusetts, and the father resumed the business of tailoring,
which had been his vocation in the country of his birth, and he
followed this throughout the course of a long and active business
life. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz, now arrived at a great old age, reside
in Syracuse, New York, where they enjoy in leisure the fruits of
a former thrift and industry. Although of such advanced years
both of them have excellent health.

William F. Schultz was born in Cohoes, New York, on Oc-
tober 8, 1865. He attended school at Buffalo and commenced
his business career at the age of thirteen, in which year he was
graduated from the grammar school. Having decided upon the
trade of plumbing as a life work he served a four years' apprentice-
ship and then engaged himself on salary. He continued under
this arrangement until 1900, when he decided to make an inde-
pendent venture and started out in business for himself in Hornell.
He is a fine workman and an astute business man, and he has
prospered in the most satisfactory manner. When to this is added
the fact that he is a right and honest business man, his value as a
citizen is told. He is a self made man and his present competence
has been derived from his own efforts, assisted by those of his wife.
He has been commissioned to fit the new schoolhouse of Hornell
with plumbing, both heat and light.

On the 12th day of June, 1896, Mr. Schultz was united m
marriage to Miss Sarah A. 'Heron, a daughter of Morris

656 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

'Heron, the ceremony being solemnized at Boston, Ontario. They
have three children: Robert 0., born in 1900; Howard I., born
in 1903; and Frederick Neil, born in 1907. Mr. Schultz is the
friend of good education and his sons will, no doubt, receive the
best to be had. The eldest is now in the third grade and showa
much talent in music, frequently singing at entertainments.

Politically Mr. Sehultz votes the Republican ticket and he and
his wife attend the Presbyterian church. He is a member of the
great Masonic body, and belongs to the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and the Maccabees.

Edward D. Cross.— It is a matter of satisfaction to be able to
record in this volume that so great a percentage of the native sons
of Steuben county have here found ample scope for successful ef-
fort in connection with normal lines of business, professional and
industrial enterprise and that they have never severed their al-
legiance to the county of their birth. Among the prominent and
honored representatives of this class is Hon. Edward D. Cross, who
was born in the house which he now occupies and who is one of
the representative farmers and grape-growers of the county. That
he commands a secure place in the confidence and esteem in the
community which has ever been his home needs no further voucher
than that offered by the fact that he has served eight terms as
supervisor of Pulteney township and has represented his county in
the state legislature. His attractive and well improved homestead
is located in Pulteney township and is one of the fine places of
the county.

Edward D. Cross was born in the old homestead in which he
now resides and the date of his nativity was February 4, 1852.
He is a son of Odell and Adelaide (Gibson) Cross. Odell Cross
was born in Westchester county, New York, in 1826 and in 1829
his parents removed to Steuben county, where he was reared to
maturity and where his marriage was solemnized. He became one
of the successful agriculturists and grape-growers of Pulteney
township, where he continued to reside until his death, as did also
his wife. They became the parents of three children, of whom
the subject of this review is the eldest. The father was a Republi-
can in his political proclivities and both he and his wife held mem-
bership in the Methodist church. He was well known in the coun-
ty that so long represented his home and here he ever commanded
unqualified esteem, having played well his part in connection with
the material development of the county.

Hon. Edward D. Cross was reared to maturity on the home-
stead which is his present place of abode and after availing him-
self of the advantages of the public schools of his native township
he continued his studies for some time in the graded schools of
Bath, this county. He has always been identified with the line
of industry under whose influence he was reared and in connec-
tion therewith he has achieved success worthy of the name. His

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present homestead comprises sixty-five acres, of which thirty acres
are devoted to vineyard purposes, the remainder being
utilized for diversified agriculture. Mr. Cross is progressive in his
business associations and the substantial improvements and dis-
tinctive thrift that characterize his homestead well indicate the
excellent management he has given to the property. Like his
honored father he served as supervisor of Pulteney township, he
has taken a loyal and public-spirited interest in all that has touched
the welfare of the community and his political allegiance has ever
been given to the Republican party, in whose local ranks he has
been a prominent factor. In 1880 he was elected supervisor of his
native township and he continued incumbent of this office for eight
years, by successive elections. In 1898 he was elected to represent
Steuben county in the lower house of the state legislature in which
he served two terms and in which he made an admirable record.
He was assigned to membership on important committees of the
house and was a faithful and earnest worker in the deliberations
of both the floor and committee room. Since his retirement from
this office he has continued to take an active interest in political af-
fairs in his home county. Both he and his family hold member-
ship in the Methodist Episcopal church.

In the year 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cross to
Miss Sylvia McConnell, who was born and reared in Pulteney
township and who is a daughter of the late Mr. ilcConnell, a suc-
cessful agriculturist of this township. Mr. and Mrs. Cross have
two daughters,— Stella and Mary A. The elder daughter is now
engaged as a trained nurse in the state hospital at Willard and she
is a talented musician, having been graduated in music at Utica
Conservatory of Music.

John De Kay.— The De Kay family sprang from an ancient
family of Picardy, France. It was a Huguenot family. Members
of it came from Ghent, in the sixteenth century, and found refuge
in London, England, and later in Holland. The head of this
branch, one Guillaume de Kay, was one of the Lord Directors of the
Dutch West Indies Company. His son William, a native of Lon-
don, was the first of the line to come to America. He settled at
New Amsterdam (New York), in 1641. His descendants became
land owners, officials and men of weight and authority. One of
the descendants of Guillaume de Kay located in Sullivan county,
New York. There John De Kay was born March 5, 1832, a son of
Richard and Lizzie (Knapp) De Kay. In 1842 his father took
him, with other members of his family, to Chicago, Illinois. Thence,
they went to McHenry county, Illinois, where the elder De Kay
bought and settled on a farm. Here they remained till 1852, when
they moved to Minnesota, where the father of the family eventually
passed away.

John De Kay had few educational advantages, but he was
intellectually alert and gained a practical knowledge of the world
that stood him in good stead in the battle of life. He married

658 HISTORY OF STEUBEjS" COUNTY

Eliza Ellsworth, a teacher, who was a most excellent wife. She
was of the Ellsworth family of Yates county. New York. She
died in 1904, having borne her husband seven children,— William
A., Amelia, Lewis F., Mary, John W., Henry E., and Ada.
Amelia is deceased and Mary married James Muldoon. Mr. De
Kay sold his interests in the West in 1903 and returned to Steu-
ben county and bought fifteen acres at Prattsburg. He is a Re-
publican in politics, deeply interested in the success of his party
and with an intelligent grasp of national events, but has never
devoted himself to political work. As a citizen he is eminently
public spirited and helpful.

James N. Robinson.— Steuben county claims the nativity of
this progressive young lawyer and man of affairs of Hornell. Mr.
Robinson was born in Canisteo September 14, 1881, a son of the
late Hon. Frank H. Robinson. The latter, a native of Cuba, Al-
legany county, New York, attained prominence there as a lawyer
and came to Steuben county about 1880. He was twice elected
county judge, was district attorney and was a candidate for the
office of attorney general of the state of New York. In all his
active years he was prominent in political affairs. As a Mason
he was no less conspicuous and popular and he was a member of
several other secret and beneficial societies. He married Miss
Jennie Nichols, a native of Limestone, Cattaraugus county. New
York, who survives him. They had five children, all of whom are
living. Charles P. has gained success as a lawyer in New York
city. F. Hurd is connected with the city engineer corps. Eliza-
beth is next in order of nativity. Robert is the youngest of the
family.

James N. Robinson, second in order of birth of the children of
Hon. Prank H. and Jennie (Nichols) Robinson, was prepared for
college at Dr. Stone's school at Cornwall-on-the Hudson and spent
three years at Yale, his studies being interrupted by his recall
home because of the illness of his father. He was admitted to the
bar in June, 1909, and took up his father's practice. He is a
Mason, an Elk and a Knight of the Maccabees. In politics he is,
as was his father, a Republican. At this time he is ably filling
the office of justice of the peace.

In 1908 Mr. Robinson married Miss Mary Schuyler Hurd,
daughter of Walton and Anna (Ide) Hurd, an attractive and win-
ning young woman who is doing much to aid him in his advance-
ment. He is a stockholder in the Bank of Steuben and in the Bank
of Canisteo, is secretary of the Maple City Co-operative Savings
and Loan Association of Hornell and secretary and treasurer of
the Hurd Real Estate Company of Hornell. His interests in the
real estate line are considerable. His political activities, as treas-
urer of the Republican City Committee and otherwise, have gained
him wide recognition as a man of potential usefulness and prom-
inence in a public way. In all things he is essentially helpful and
public spirited.

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Albert W. Barton.— The present chief of police of the thriv-
ing little city of Hammondsport, where he is also rendering effec-
tive service as street commissioner, is a native son of Steuben
county and a scion of one of its honored families. He was born in
Bath township, this county, on the 5th of November, 1862, and is
a son of Leonard and Caroline (Bateman) Barton, the former of
whom died in 1885, at the age of fifty-seven years, and the latter
of whom died in 1894, at the age of sixty-six years. Leonard Bar-
ton was born on the old homestead farm in Bath township and his
entire active career was one of close identification with agricultural
pursuits. He was a son of Jeremiah Barton, who came to Steu-
ben county and secured a tract of land in Bath township in the
pioneer days, there passing the residue of his life, as did also his
wife, whose maiden name was Ellen St. Clair. Mrs. Caroline
(Bateman) Barton was a daughter of Samuel and Caroline Bate-
man, who were born at Egypt, Monroe county. New York, whence
they came to Steuben county many years ago. Concerning the
children of Leonard and Caroline (Bateman) Barton the follow-
ing brief record is entered, — Ida is the wife of J. L. Davis, who is
a carpenter by trade and who resides at Dresden, Yates county;
Samuel is a successful carpenter and builder in the city of Roches-
ter; Jeremiah resides on the old homestead farm in Bath town-
ship ; Harley S. is a contractor and builder at Utica-, this state ;
William J. is a successful farmer in North -Dakota ; Allen H. is
engaged in farming in Avoea; Andrew J. is a farmer and rural
mail carrier in North Dakota; and Albert W., of this review, was
the eighth child in order of birth.

Albert Wheeler Barton was reared to the sturdy discipline
of the home farm and his early educational advantages were those
afforded in the distriiit schools. He was but twelve years of age
at the time of his father's death and thereafter he continued to be
associated with the work of the home farm until he had attained
to his legal majority. After his marriage be continued to be ac-
tively identified with agricultural pursuits in Howard township
until 1895, when he established his residence in Hammondsport,
where he was engaged in the grocery business for one year, at the
expiration of which he opened. a meat market. Later he was for
three years in the employ of the Lake Keuka Navigation Company
and since 1900 he has served as chief of police and street commis-
sioner of Hammondsport, offices in which the best evidence of his
effective administration ' is that given by his continuous incum-
bency. He is a stanch Republican in his .political proclivities and
while in Howard township he served two terms as township col-
lector, besides which he has been a delegate to the county conven-
tions of his party. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of
America, in which he is chief counsel of the Hammondsport or^
ganization, and he also holds membership in the Improved Order-
of Redmen. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Metho-
dist Episcopal church. In the year 1883, shortly after attaining

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660 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

to his legal majority, Mr. Barton was united in marriage to Miss
Georgiana Sharp, who was born in Howard township, this county,
on the 4th of October, 1864, and who is a daughter of David and
Mary (Briscoe) Sharp, the father a native of Steuben county, and
the mother of England. The father showed his loyalty to the land
of his birth by his service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil
war and he died while in service. Mr. and Mrs. Barton have five
children: Bertha is the wife of Ard Dye, who is engaged in the
plumbing business at Hammondsport, and they have two chil-
dren,— Barton and Clifford; Blanche is the wife of Floyd Barnes,
who is engaged in the plumbing business at Corning, and their
only child, Ronald, died in infancy; and Evelyn, Martin Van
Buren and Le Roy are attending the public schools of Hammonds-
port.

Chaelbs M. Hunter, proprietor of a livery establishment and
a dealer in stock at Bath, New York, was born in Bath township,
Steuben county, July 16, 1845, a son of James and Catharine
(Velie) Hunter and grandson of Peter and Lucinda Hunter. The
Hunters have long been residents of the "Empire state." James
Hunter was born in Orange county. His surviving children, three
in number, are Giles, engaged in the hardware business at Rock-
ford, Illinois; Velie, a farmer near Bath, New York; and Charles
M., the immediate subject of this sketch. A son Henry is de-
ceased.

Charles M. Hunter was reared on a farm and remained with
his father, engaged in agricultural pursuits, until he attained
his twenty-second year. Then he went into the neighboring state
of Pennsylvania and found employment as a clerk in a dry goods
store, where he remained thus occupied for three years. About
this time he was married, and from Pennsylvania he went to Ohio,
where he was engaged in the mercantile business with his brother
Henry for several years, and from there he returned to Bath and
was eight years in the grocery business. He then turned his at-
tention to the livery business. In 1887, having disposed of his
livery establishment, he went to Colorado, and at Greeley, that
state, accepted a position as manager of an opera house. This
place he filled for six years. At the end of that time, returning to
his native state, he settled at Bath, where he has since conducted
a livery and dealt in horses and other stock.

Mrs. Hunter, formerly Miss Mary Cass, is a native of Bath
and a daughter of Daniel Cass, deceased, for many years a farmer
and stock dealer of Steuben county. To Mr. and Mrs. Hunter have
been given two children: Byron T., who married Maude Osgood
and who is engaged in the jewelry business at Greeley, Colorado ;
and Nellie, wife of Daniel McBride, cashier of the HoUoek Bank
at Bath.

Mr. Hunter has always been a stanch Republican. For years
he has been elected and served as constable of Bath, and he served

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one term as chief of police. He and his family are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church.

Otto K. Stewart, M. D.— One of the brilliant and reliable
representatives of the medical profession, and still to be counted
among the younger generation, is Dr. Otto K. Stewart, a native of
Steuben county and especially deserving of representation in this
volume as one of the citizens who stand for the progress and up-
building of the community in which their interests are centered.
He has an interesting ancestry, the Stewart family having been
founded in this country by the great-grandfather of the subject,
one John Stewart, born in Ireland in 1775. Possibly inspired in
some occult manner in his cradle by the spirit of those stanch
Colonists who in the year following that of his nativity signed that
famous document, the Declaration of Independence, he at any
rate was in his youth drawn to cross the blue Atlantic in quest of
the freedom and opportunity of the new world. His wife, Jane
White, was also a native of the Emerald Isle, where she was bom in
1777. They were married in their native country in 1797 and
came to America in 1805. They stopped for a time in Albany,
New York, and then came on to Argyle in Washington county,
where they located, making it their home until the year 1818, the
head of the family making his livelihood and that of his wife and
children as a stone mason and bricklayer. The agricultural re-
sources of the state proved a temptation sufficiently great for him
to abandon his trade and he brought his goods, chattels and children
to Howard, Steuben county, where he bought a farm of one hun-
dred and fifty acres, which was quite unimproved. He proceeded
to build a house and to clear his land, with the assistance of his
stalwart sons, and in course of time he canie to enjoy comfortable
fortunes, occasionally reverting to his trade, by which he earned
many an honest dollar. He reared a family of seven sons and two
daughters, by whom his name and his revered memory were per-
petuated. When about sixty-five years of age, a team ran away
with him and he received injuries which resulted in his death, this
worthy pioneer and emigrant being gathered to his fathers in 1842.

William Stewart, grandfather of the subject, was the fourth
son of John Stewart. He was educated in the public schools of
Towelsville and spent some of his early years engaged in farm
work. He was inclined toward the medical profession, and being
of that indefatigable type which knows no difficulty and stands
erect under tasks which would have dislocated the arm of Hercules,
he studied at night, working hard by day upon the farm. He
had reached the age of forty years before he was prepared for his
practice, which he inaugurated in Buena Vista, Steuben county.
New York. His was an active and useful life and he continued in
practice in the above-mentioned town until his death in 1898. He
was bom in 1816, at Argyle, and married Miss Susan L. Ford,
who was born in Howard, February 3, 1819. His widow survives

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and is living, at the age of ninety-one years, at Buena Vista. The
grandmother of this estimable lady was a first cousin of President
William Henry Harrison. She and her husband were married
January 8, 1838, and reared a family of thirteen children, seven
of this "baker's dozen," being sons and six daughters, and eight
of the number being alive at the present day.

James H. Stewart, father of him whose name initiates this
review, is the ninth child born to the foregoing couple. His eyes
first opened to the light of day on March 4, 1853. He received
his educational discipline, of an elementary character, at the pub-
lie school of Howard, later entered Canisteo Academy, and began
his career as a farmer. This he continued for three years, and
then took up the musical instrument business, selling pianos, or-
gans and music. He has continued in this line ever since and
enjoys a thriving patronage, possessing that most enviable of
gifts, the confidence of his associates, and being modern and
progressive in his ideas. On December 14, 1875, he married Miss
Rachel J. Stevens, born March 25, 1855, a daughter of Joshua and
Hannah (Abbie) Stevens, and they have a family consisting of
two sons and two daughters. The former are both professional
men. Pauline Adelaide, the elder daughter,- has pronounced
musical talents and holds the position of musical instructor in the
Ohio University at Athens, Ohio, in which institution of learning
the younger daughter, Mabel Emma, is a student and a member
of the class of 1911, specializing in elocution and piano. The
son Harry is a Democrat in his affiliations. Politically Mr. J. H.
Stewart, the father, is a Republican, and he has given efficient
service in public office as a member of the school board, and the
village board. He was town clerk for several terms and town col-
lector for two. In his lodge relations Mr. Stewart is a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masons, in the
latter holding membership in Steuben Chapter. He and his fam-
ily are Baptist in religious conviction.

The subject. Otto K. Stewart, was born in Steuben county on
February 20, 1878, and he is the second son of his parents. The
Canisteo public schools afforded him his preliminary education
and later he entered the Canisteo Academy, from which he was
graduated. In the fall of that year, 1898, he matriculated in the
medical department of the University of Buffalo, from which in-
stitution he was graduated in the spring of 1902. After spending
one year as interne in the Erie County Hospital he came with high
recommendations to begin upon his career. He initiated his prac-
tice in 1903 and in the ensuing years has built up a large practice.
He is a hard worker and a constant student of his profession,
realizing to the fullest degree the importance of keeping in touch
with the latest discoveries in this most important of sciences. On
August 16, 1904, he married Miss Alice G. Valentine, a native of
Hamilton, Canada, born in the month of April, 1878, and a daugh-

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ter of Charles and Alice (Arland) Valentine. Mrs. Stewart
previous to her marriage was a trained nurse.

Dr. Stewart has numerous affiliations, of professional and other
character. He is a member and president of the Hornell Medical
Society ; also president of the Steuben County Society ; a member of
the State Medical and Surgical Society; belongs to the American
Medical Association; the New York and New England Railway
Surgical Association and the Keuka Lake Medical Surgical Asso-
ciation. He is a Mason, belonging to the chapter at Hornell, and is
affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America. He is examining
physician for several life insurance companies and surgeon for the
New York and Pennsylvania Railroad. He is Methodist in his
religious views, and gives his sympathy and support to the men
and measures of the "Grand Old Party."

I

Aaeon F. Williams, the leading hardware merchant of Corn-
ing, New York, is a son of one of the prominent and highly re-
spected citizens of Steuben county — Holland B. Williams, who
was- born at Prattsburg, Steuben county. New York, April 12,
1834, and died at Corning, April 30, 1889. He began life as a
clerk in a general store in his native town. Later he clerked at
Bath, in Steuben county. Returning to Prattsburg, he was ap-
pointed postmaster, and soon afterward bought a general store,
which he conducted in connection with the office. In 1873, after
being elected sheriff of Steuben county, he sold his mercantile
business. Previous to this time and afterward he was more or less
interested in produce business. In 1880, he purchased Mr. Goff's
interest in the dry goods store of GofE & Robinson, and continued
in that business until his death. . In the meantime, in 1887, he
built the Williams block ou Market street, Corning. After his
removal to Corning he was nominated for the state legislature but
was defeated, he being a Democrat and the county largely Republi-
can. In his religious faith he was a Presbyterian, and in this
faith reared his family. March 19, 1874, he married F. Amanda
Barber, who was born in Avon, Livingston county. New York,
June 15, 1843, daughter of Aaron and Lois (Stevens) Barber.
Aaron Barber was born in Onondaga county, New York, February
4, 1806, passed his life as a farmer and died June 4, 1869,
at Avon. Lois (Stevens) Barber was born June 30, 1807, and died
at Avon, September 17, 1903. Mrs. Williams has a brother,
Aaron, and a sister, Sirs. Jlary L. Jenks, both residents of Avon,
New York. To Holland B. Williams -and wife were born three
children, namely : Frank Barber Williams, born April 13, 1875,
died January 25, 1905; Aaron F., the subject of this sketch, and
Lois, born June 18, 1879.

Aaron F. Williams dates his birth in the town of Bath, Steu-
ben county, November 13, 1876. He was educated at Corning
Academy and the University of Rochester, in the latter institu-
tion spending two years. At the age of eighteen he began his

666 BISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY

business career as an employe in his uncle's meat market at Corn-
ing, where he remained about two years. Then he succeeded his
brother in the firm of Frost & Williams, hardware dealers, and
was associated in business with Mr. Frost until July 1, 1904, when
he purchased Mr. Frost's interest, and has since continued alone.
Mr. Williams is an enterprising young man, progressive and
up-to-date in whatever he undertakes, and the success he has
achieved is due to his individual efforts, which have always been
backed by integrity and high purpose. He is a lover of sports,
especially of the turf, and has for years been identified with the
prominent horsemen of the country, he himself owning many fine
harness horses. Fraternally, he is a member of the Order of Elks,
and, politically, like his father before him, he is Democratic.

Henry Davidson.— At this juncture attention is directed to a
brief review of the career of the present efficient and popular super-
intendent of the state fish hatchery at Bath, Steuben county. Mr.
Davidson has shown marked ability in the handling of the affairs
of this interesting business and under his administration distinc-
tive progress has been made.

Henry Davidson was born at White Lake, Oneida county.
New York, on the 30th of December, 1866, and is a son of John
and Jane (Edgar) Davidson. John Davidson was born in Scot-
land and was a hoy at the time of his parents' emigration to
America. He was a son of John and Elizabeth Davidson, who
settled in the vicinity of the city of Albany, where John Davidson,
Sr., engaged in farming and gardening for a time. He then re-
moved to White Lake, Oneida county, where both he and his wife
passed the residue of their lives. John Davidson, Jr., father of
him whose name initiates this review, was reared to the sturdy
discipline of the farm and he continued to be actively identified
with agricultural pursuits and the lumber business for many
years. He passed the closing years of his life at White Lake,
where he died in 1892, at the age of seventy-four years. He was
a stanch Kepublican in his political allegiance and was called
upon to serve in a number of local offices of public trust,— incum-
bencies that well indicate the high esteem in which he was held
in his home community. He was a zealous member of the Presby-
terian church, as is also his widow, who is now a resident of White
Lake, and who has attained to the venerable age of eighty-six
years. Of the eight children the sub.ject of this sketch is the
youngest; John is a railway engineer by vocation and resides at
Schenectady; William is engaged in farming at White Lake,
Oneida county; Samuel is a successful farmer of Lafayette town-
ship, Onondaga county; David is a carpenter by trade and re-
sides in the city of Syracuse; James is a farmer in White Lake
township, Oneida county; Robert is a railway engineer and re-
sides at Schenectady and George is a successful carpenter and
builder at Oswego, this state.

HISTORY OF STEUBEjST COUNTY 667

Henry Davidson passed his boyhood days on the home farm
and waxed strong- in mental and physical powers, through the
invigorating- discipline involved. He continued to attend the
public schools of his native county until he was sixteen years of
age and thereafter was identified with agricultural pursuits until
he attained to the age of twenty-one years. He then learned the
carpenter's trade, to which he devoted his attention until January,
1895, when he established a private fish hatchery at Fulton Chain,
Herkimer county, where he remained four years. For the en-
suing three years he followed the same line of enterprise in Frank-
lin county and then he was transferred to the state fish hatchery at
Fulton Chain, where he remained four years. He then, in 1905,
came to Bath, where he has since been superintendent of the well
equipped fish hatchery here conducted under the auspices of the
state. In polities Mr. Davidson gives his allegiance to the Repub-
lican party and he has been an active worker in its local ranks,
though the only public ^office of which he has been incumbent is
that of notary public.

Chauistcey G. Hubbaed, M. D., who has a wide and valuable
acquaintance throughout Steuben county, was born in Cameron,
that county, October 16, 1845. Chauncey P. Hubbard, his father,
was a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, born in 1803. He came
to the county in 1828, settled in WoodhuU and became success-
ful and well known as a pioneer farmer and lumberman. He
died at Fredonia, New York, in 1894. Nathan Hubbard, father
of Chauncey P. Hubbard and grandfather of Chauncey G. Hub-
bard, was born near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1775, became a
merchant and lumberman, moved to Middlebury, Vermont, in 1803
and died there. He was a son of Zadoc Hubbard, who was born
in Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1749, and Zadoc Hubbard was a
son of Captain Daniel Hubbard, born in 1714, who died at Pitts-
field, Massachusetts. Captain Hubbard had four sons in the
patriot service. Dr. Hubbard is descended from ancestors who
came over from England on the Mayflower. Among his forbears
were William Brewster and Eichard Warren.

Chauncey P. Hubbard married Mary Wells, a native of
Lenox, Massachusetts, daughter of Stephen and Lois (Hubbard)
Wells. Some of her ancestors fought for the cause of the Colonies
in the Revolutionary war. She, too, was of English descent.
She died in 1896, aged ninety-two years. She bore her husband
nine children, seven of whom lived to manhood and womanhood
and three of whom were living in 1910. Mrs. Emily Hubbard
lives at Syracuse, New York. Alma Rose Hubbard lives at
Fredonia, New York. Chauncey G., the immediate subject of this
notice, was the seventh of his parents' children in order of nativ-
ity. He spent his boyhood days in Cameron, and was educated
in schools there and at Corning, Steuben county; at Alfred Uni-
versity, Alfred, Allegany county, and at the New York Univer-

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eity Medical College. He was graduated from the last named
institution in 1871, and after spending a year as a physician in
the Blackwell's Island asylum for the insane he came in 1872 to
Hornell, where he has practiced his profession ever since and is
referred to often as the oldest active physician in the city in
point of period of continuous service. He is a member of the
Steuben County Medical Society.

In 1880 Doctor Hubbard married Miss Florence N. Prentice,
of Jasper, Steuben county, New York, and they have two sons—
Chauncey P., of Avon, Livingston county. New York; and Harold
C, of Ithaca, New York. The Doctor is a member and an elder of
the Presbyterian church. His brother. Rev. Albert Hubbard, was
a missionary in Turkey and died there in 1889, after a residence
there of twenty-six years. Theodore S. Hubbard, another of the
Doctor's brothers, became prominent as a nurseryman and died in
1906. He was a liberal supporter of religious and temperance
work and his gifts to charities amounted to one hundred thousand
dollars.

Dr. Edith Kimball Neel, of Hammondsport, has the dis-
tinction of being the only woman member of the Steuben County
Medical Society. Her undoubted ability as a physician and her
usefulness to the community have made her an ornament to her
profession and a credit to her sex. She is a native of the state of
New York, her birth having occurred at Deansboro, Oneida county,
February 22, 1861. Her father was Charles W. Kimball, who
was born at Manlius, New York, February 24, 1824, and died
February 25, 1907. He was a farmer by occupation and he chose
as his wife, Jane Waterman, also of Oneida county, where she
was born on Christmas day in the year 1825. Dr. Neel's grand-
parents on the maternal side were Joseph and Polly (Ritter)
Waterman and on the paternal side they were Nathaniel and
Emma (King) Kimball. She is of fine American stock which in-
cludes good citizens, soldiers and patriots. Of the children of
Charles W. and Jane (Waterman) Kimball we are enabled to
write as follows: Frances L. is at the old Kimball home; Mary
Ella is the wife of Robert Hare, a farmer, residing at Perry, New
York. Alice J. became the wife of T. Hare and is deceased;
Charles N. an architect lives at Attica, New York; Dr. Neel is
next in order of nativity; William and Willis, twins, reside at
Linden, New York, where both are engaged in agricultural pur-
suits; Edwin J., the youngest member of this large family has
not been heard from for fifteen years. His last residence was
Stockton, California.

Edith Kimball spent his girlhood amid the scenes upon which
her eyes first opened to the light of day, and attended the public
schools until her fourteenth year. She then attended the select
school of Emily Thrall, Batavia, New York, for about a year,
Middlebury Academy for two years, and then began upon a career

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as a school teacher, her enlightened endeavors in that line cover-
ing a period of nearly seven years, nearly two years of that time,
however, being devoted to study in a normal school. Being natur-
ally gifted for dealing with the ills which afflict mankind, she
abandoned her pedagogical labors and entered a training school
for nurses at Rochester, New York. She was graduated as a
trained nurse from Rochester City Hospital in 1889 and chose
Buffalo and Rochester as promising fields for her labor. There
she remained for fifteen years, manifesting such unusual ability
and executive capacity that she was elevated to the position of
head nurse at the Fitch Accident Hospital of that city. Her am-
bitions embraced projects of greater scope, however, and with
a view to becoming a member of the medical profession she de-
voted some time to the study of medicine and surgery at the Uni-
versity of Buffalo Medical Department. A few years after her
marriage in 1898 she removed to Detroit, where she attended the
classes of the Detroit Homeopathic Medical College for two years,
graduating from that institution in 1906. Coming to Hammonds-
port soon afterward, she opened an office here and has won a suc-
cess of which any physician in the town could well be proud.
She is one of those who believe it no less than a crime not to keep
abreast of this constantly advancing science and she never slum-
bers nor sleeps in the matter of making herself mistress of its
newest discoveries. Not only is she a prominent member of the
Steuben County Medical Society, but she also is affiliated with the
Lake Keuka Medical Association and the Southern Tier Homeo-
pathic Society. She has made a specialty of the diseases of do-
mestic animals, has made some world-renowned discoveries in
this department and is the author of a popular book called, ' ' Cats,
How to Treat Them When 111." Her professional duties, im-
portant thought they may be, do not prevent her keeping in touch
with the many-sided life of the community. She is a member
of the Presbyterian church, a leader in woman's mission work
and is identified with the Masonic order of the Eastern Star.

On May 25, 1898, she was united in marriage to James Neel,
who was born near Buffalo, New York. The year of his birth was
1,837 and he was the son of Robert and Lucinda (Mc Arthur) Neel.
After a long career as a railroad man he adopted a mercantile
career, his business being located at Kanona, New York, and he
subsequently became bookkeeper for the Urbana Wine Cellar and
later manager of the concern, which position he held at the time
of his demise, April 7, 1908. He was a man of affairs and of fine
business ability. His interests were of broad scope and importance
and included the treasurership of the American Wine Growers'
Association and a directorship in the Hammondsport Bank. An
ardent Republican and a tireless worker for the success of his party
he was well known for this reason alone and for thirty years
served as postmaster of Urbana. As a citizen lie was interested
in the success of good government, participating in the political

670 HISTOEY OF STEU-BEN COUNTY

bouts of Ms party and aiding in the promotion of business and
social harmony by a straightforward course as a citizen. He was
high in the councils of the Masonic order, having passed all the
chairs in his lodge and taken all the degrees, including that of the
Mystic Shrine. His death in the prime of his usefulness was
regarded as a general calamity. Since her marriage. Dr. Neel has
been known as Dr. Edith Kimball Neel, and the name is one which
is well and favorably known throughout the length and breadth
of Steuben county.

Hon. William J. Tully is one of the best known members of
the bar of his native commonwealth and he has brought to his
profession great energy and resourcefulness, qualities that he has
also called into effective action in connection with various business
enterprises of important order. He gave distinguished service
as a member of the state senate and has held various public offices
of more localized character. He has been engaged in the practice
of his profession in New York city since 1908 and he is general
solicitor of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a note-
worthy preferment and one which implies definite recognition of
his splendid professional abilities. Concerning him the follow-
ing statements are made in a bulletin issued by the co-operative
pi-ess: "The career of Hon. William J. Tully is marked by a
progression of successful business undertakings. He is hardly
forty years of age. He looks much younger. He has been, prac-
ticing law since his twenty-second year. Since that time he
has held important public office in three different positions, has
practiced law with success in two localities and now he is occupied
in one of the most important positions in the life insurance in-
dustry in this country. In October, 1909, Mr. Tully was chosen
to take charge of the newly created office of general solicitor of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company."

William J. Tully was born at Corning, Steuben county. New
York, on the 1st of October, 1870, and is a son of Joseph J.
and Sarah (Byers) Tully, the former of whom was identified with
the Corning Glass Works from the time of the foundation of this
important industrial enterprise until his death, forty-one years
later, in June, 1907. William J. Tully is indebted to the public
schools of his native town and of the city of Brooklyn for his
earlier educational training and he was graduated in public school
No. 15 in Brooklyn as a member of the class of 1885. Later he
continued his higher studies in the Corning Free Academy, in
which institution he was graduated in the class of 188. His next
definite action was to become a student in the Brooklyn Polytechnic
Institute, in which he prepared himself for entrance to Columbia
University. In preparation for the work of his chosen profession
Mr. Tully was matriculated in the New York Law School, in which
he completed the prescribed course and in which he was grad-
uated as a member of the class of 1892, duly receiving his degree

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of Bachelor of Laws and being admitted to the bar of his native
state, in the city of Buffalo, in the following year. Data con-
cerning further points in his professional and business career have
been succinctly given in the article from which the former quota-
tion was made and recourse is therefore taken to the same, though
slight paraphrase is made.

Naturally Mr. TuUy went back to his home town to initiate
the practice of law and in the spring of 1894 he was elected re-
corder of Corning. While incumbent of this office the law firm
of MUls & TuUy was organized and after two years of service as
recorder he declined a renomination and renewed the practice of
law. His partnership with Mr. Mills was dissolved only by the
death of the latter and thereafter he was for some time engaged
in practice in an individual way. In 1899 he organized the firm
of Page, TuUy & Ferris, with which substantial law firm he con-
tinued to be actively identified for seven years. In 1902 Mr. TuUy
was again induced to accept public office, being elected to the
board of supervisors of Steuben county. He was immediately
made chairman of that board and was afterward renominated by
both political parties, again serving as chairman of the board. He
resigned this position to enter the contest for state senator, to
which office he was elected in 1904. He made himself felt in the
senate during his first term, and in July, 1905, he had the dis-
tinction of being made a member of the famous special committee,
which conducted investigations into the management of the vari-
ous life insurance companies in New York city. He was re-elected
to the senate in 1906 and served until 1908, when he resigned to
enter upon the practice of law in New York city. In October of
the same year he was appointed to the position of attorney to the
Association of Life Insurance Presidents, an organization dis-
tinguished by the membership of the late Grover Cleveland, who
was its head up to the time of his death. In June, 1909, there
came consistent recognition of his ability and services when Alfred
University conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws. Mr. TuUy is identified with the Bar Association of New
York city and also the New York County Lawyers' Association.
He is a member of the Coming Club of his native town, as well
as the Fort Orange Club of Albany, and the Calumet, Manhattan
and Republican Clubs of New York city. He is a member of
the directorate of each the Corning & Painted Post Street Railway
Company, the Elmira, Corning & Waverly Railroad Company
and the Ephraim Creek Coal & Coke Company. He is an able
and effective exponent of the principles and policies for which
the Republican party stands sponsor and he has done much to
further its interests in various campaigns.

On the 5th of October, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. TuUy to Miss Clara jNIabel Houghton, of Corning, and though
his business interests are largely centered in New York the family
home is still maintained at Corning. Mr. and Mrs. TuUy have
two children : Alice Bigelow TuUy and Marion Gordon TuUy.

672 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

Edwin C. Cook.— In the thriving little city of Bath resides a
well known and highly honored citizen of Steuben county with
whose annals the family name has been identified for nearly three-
quarters of a century. He has been concerned with important in-
terests in his native county, including the banking business, and
now, venerable in years, he is living virtually retired, enjoying the
due reward of former years of earnest toil and endeavor.

Edwin C. Cook was born at Liberty Corners, this county, on
the 12th of October, 1838, and the place of his ■ nativity is now
known as Cohocton. His father. Constant Cook, was born in
Warren, Herkimer county. New York, in the year 1797, and he
died at Bath, Steuben county, in 1874. Constant Cook married
Miss Maria Whitney, who was born at Parishill, Oneida county,
New York, in 1798, and who died at Bath, Steuben county, on the
6th of September, in 1889, and thus she survived her honored hus-
band by a decade and a half. Their marriage was solemnized at
Monticello, Herkimer county, New York, on Christmas Eve of the
year 1819, and they became the parents of the following children,
all of whom are deceased except the subject of this review, who
is the youngest of the number. The first child died at birth;
Harriet Jane was three years of age at the time of her death;
Mary Jane died at the age of four years; John was sixteen years
of age at the time of his demise ; Abigail Clarissa, who became the
wife of Lansing Hodgeman, died in 1906, at the venerable age of
eighty-three years, and Henry Harvey died in 1905, at the age of
eighty-three years.

Constant Cook learned the trade of blacksmith in his youth
and in 1820, in company with his father, Philip Cook, who was
familiarly known as 'Squire Cook, came to Steuben county and
located at a point two and a half miles distant from Cohocton.
Here Philip Cook purchased four hundred acres of land, for which
he paid fifty cents per acre. He was also a blacksmith by trade
and he and his son Constant erected a primitive shop on the farm,
where they found ample demand \ipon their services as black-
smiths, while they also gave their attention to the reclamation of
the farm. It is worthy of note that on the day that he was mar-
ried Constant Cook made the extraordinary record of shoeing
eight horses. He and his father cleared and brought under cul-
tivation more than two hundred acres of their land and the old
homestead continued in the possession of the family until 1907.
Philip Cook was originally a Democrat in his political allegiance
but later gave his support to the Whig party, of which his son
Constant became a stanch adherent, thus continuing until the
organization of the Republican party, when he transferred his
allegiance to the latter. Constant Cook continued to reside on the
pioneer homestead until 1822, when he located in the village of
Liberty Corners (now Cohocton), where he erected a tavern of the
type common to the locality and period. Upon establishing his
home in the little village he there purchased about thirty acres of

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land and he brought to his new home but a limited amount of
household goods, besides which he had a pair of steers and bobbed-
sled. He achieved success and definite popularity as an innkeeper
and he was associated with John McGee in contracting for the
transportation of United States mail, in which line their opera-
tions were of wide scope. They operated an extensive stage line
in connection with which they owned at one time more than five
hundred horses and one hundred stage coaches. They were also
associated in contracting in connection with the construction of
the Erie canal and they were the largest contractors in the con-
struction of the Erie Railroad. On the 23d of March, 1843, Con-
stant Cook sold his popular tavern in Liberty Corners and re-
moved to Bath, having been previously elected to the office of
county judge. Prior to this time he had served as an associate
judge on the bench of the county court. Upon coming to Bath
Constant Cook first located in the vicinity of the present Erie
railroad station and prior to this time he has purchased the prop-
erty upon which is located the attractive homestead of his son,
Edwin C, whose name initiates this review. Shortly after estab-
lishing his home at Bath, Judge Cook became associated with nine
others in the organization of the Steuben County Bank, of which
he became one of the original directors. He was an influential
factor in the development and upbuilding of Steuben county and
as a canal and railroad contractor he did much to further the
advancement of this and other sections of the state. At the lime
of his death he was the owner of a valuable landed estate of three
hundred and twenty-six acres. Both he and his wife were devoixt
communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church and they were
numbered among the early members of the parish of St. Thomas'
church at Bath. Constant Cook was a man of fine mentality and
sterling integi-ity and his name is consistently given place on the
roster of the honored pioneers of Steuben county. He was m a
significant sense the architect of his own fortune, and his success,
which was large, was won by worthy means so that upon his en-
tire record there rests no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil.
An anecdote worthy of perpetuation in connection with his career
is here given. At the time when he was a youth and had uuap-
preciable financial resources he purchased a horse, for which he
gave his note for eighty dollars payable at the expiration of six
months. Just before this note became due he was making his way
on foot from Bath of Cohocton and was overtaken by a man who
invited him to ride in his vehicle. This man asked him if he jjnew
Constant Cook and whether or not he was "good pay." Constant
Cook, who had a distinctive impediment in his speech, replied to his
interrogation by stating that the subject of the same was "p-p-prop-
erty poor but honest. ' ' After some time the stranger said he had a
note against Mr. Cook for eighty dollars and, with true business
sagacity, Mr. Cook finally purchased this note for the sum of
fifty dollars. On another occasion 'Squire Cook had placed a man

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in jail for debt in accordance with the old-time laws. In order
to keep the debtor in duress after the expiration of sixty days it
was necessary for him to defray the expenses of his board, as
otherwise the prisoner would be released. Under these conditions
'Squire Cook went to the jail and had an interview with his debtor,
whom he informed would be given his release, but the debtor re-
fused to accept this adjustment of the case unless 'Squire Cook
would provide for him a conveyance by which he might have
transportation to Liberty Corners. It was fully agreed that such
conveyance would be supplied, but under the primitive conditions
involved in the utilization of the horse which should be ridden,
under the old-time plan of "ride and tie,"— that is, 'Squire Cook
agreed that he would ride the first half mile, tie the horse and
then proceed on foot. When the debtor should arrive at the point
where the horse was tied the latter party to the agreement would
mount the horse and proceed to a point beyond that reached by
Mr. Cook with the idea of carrying out this plan throughout the
journey. The result of the agreement between the two was that
'Squire Cook rode the first half mile and then tied the horse,
trusting to the honesty of purpose of his coadjutor in this unique
enterprise. However, there was a manifest lack of fealty on the
part of the debtor from the fact that when he came to the point
where he was to mount the horse he made use of the same and
continued his journey in an uninterrupted way to his destination,
thus compelling the father of the subject of this review to make
the remainder of the journey on foot.

Edwin C. Cook was afforded the advantages of the Haverling
Union School, at Utica, and thereafter attended for one year a
private school conducted by Dr. Prentice, a successful and popular
educator of his day. Thereafter he was for two years a student
in a private school at Springside, after which he continued his
studies for five years at Walnut Hill school, in Geneva, Ontario
county. He was one of the first pupils in the Haverling school,
at Bath, an institution that has given instruction to many of the
native sons of Steuben county, and after completing his school
work in 1857 he assumed a position in the Bank of Bath, where,
as he states, he began his service in the dignified capacity of floor
sweeper. He devoted himself with all of assiduity and care to his
assigned duties and gradually won advancement to positions of
increasing trust and responsibility, finally becoming assistant
cashier. In 1862 when this bank was reorganized as the National
Bank he was made assistant cashier of the same and he continued
one of its valued executives for many years, having been pro-
moted to the office of cashier in 1896 and having retained this
incumbency until 1898, when the institution went into voluntary
liquidation and resigned its charter. Mr. Cook became one of the
principal stockholders of this bank, long known as the First Na-
tional Bank, and was a director of the same from the time of its
incorporation under the National Bank law until it closed its busi-

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ness. Since that time he has lived virtually retired in his beautiful
home on Morris street. This attractive residence is located on a
tract of thirty acres of land, is surrounded by a high stone fence
and the grounds are beautified by fine hardwood forest trees and
and effective system of landscape gardening, making it one of the
most delightful homes of Steuben county. Mr. Cook has ever
shown a loyal interest in all that has touched the welfare of his
home town and coiuitj'' and as a citizen is essentially loyal and
public-spirited. In politics he has ever accorded a stanch allegi-
ance to the Republican party and his popularity in connection
with political affairs will be readily appreciated when it is stated
that he has served for three terms as president of the village and
as a member of its board of trustees for two terms. He is affiliated
with various fraternal and social organizations of representative
character and is a communicant of St. Thomas' church, Protestant
Episcopal, of which his wife was likewise a zealous communicant.
On the 27th of October, 1863, was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. Cook to Miss Mary Adelaide De Witt, who was born in
Dundee, New York, and who was a daughter of Frederick S. and
Martha W. (Hinckley) De Witt, both of whom were long repre-
sentative citizens of Rochester. Mrs. Cook was summoned to the
life eternal on the 14th of October, 1907 ; she was a woman of
most gracious personality and her memory is revered by all who
came within the sphere of her gentle influence. Mr. and Mrs.
Cook became the parents of one daughter, who died at the age of
nine months.

Lorenzo Davison.— The late Lorenzo Davison, who died at
his home in the village of Canisteo on the 30th of June, 1900,
established his residence in Steuben county more than half a cen-
tury ago, and it was given him to wield appreciable influence in
connection with the civic and material upbuilding of the county,
the while his strong, purposeful and sterling character gave to
him a secure hold upon the confidence and regard of all with
whom he came in contact. He is remembered as one of the essen-
tially representative business men of Canisteo and it is most con-
sonant that in this volume be incorporated a brief tribute to his
memory.

Lorenzo Davison, the third in order of birth of a family of
five sons and five daughters, was born in Tyrone township, Schuy-
ler county, New York, on the 23d of March, 1824, and was a son
of Lewis and Jemima (Gannon) Davison, the former of whom
was born and reared in the state of New Jersey and the latter in
Orange county. New York, whence she accompanied her parents
on their removal to Schuyler county, where her marriage to Lewis
Davison was solemnized. As a young man Lewis Davison moved
from his native state to Schuyler county, where he secured a tract
of wild land and reclaimed therefrom a productive farm. Upon
this old homestead in Tyrone township he reared his large family

678 HISTORY OF STEUBEN' COUXTY

of children and there both he and his devoted wife continued to
reside until they were summon,ed to eternal rest. They were num-
bered among the pioneers of Schuyler county and lived up to the
full tension of hardships and privations incidental to the pioneer
epoch in that now opulent section of the old Empire state. Loren-
zo Davison was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and
early began to assist in its arduous work, in the meanwhile at-
tending the somewhat primitive schools of the locality and period,
principally during the winter terms, when his aid was not re-
quired in connection with the work of the farm. To secure such
educational advantages as were available he was compelled to
walk a long distance over rough and hilly roads in order to pursue
his studies in the little pioneer school house, but his alert mentality
and excellent powers of observation and absorption enabled him
to overcome in later years the handicap of the early days, the
result being that he became a man of broad mental ken and
mature judgment. He continued to remain at the parental home
until he had attained to his legal majority and he then entered
upon "an apprenticeship to the trade of carpenter and joiner, in
which he became a skillful workman and to which he devoted his
attention for a period of six years.

In the spring of 1851 Mr. Davison removed to Canisteo, Steu-
ben county, where he at once erected a large shingle and planing
mill, which was operated by steam and which was located on the
banks of the Canisteo Eiver, near the site of the present depot of
the Erie Railroad. This was the first planing mill erected in Steu-
ben county west of Corning, and after it had been operated suc-
cessfully for four years it was destroyed by fire. Mr. Davison
was not disheartened by this misfortune, but promptly erected
and equipped a new mill on the same site. In 1862 he formed a
copartnership with the late L. A. Waldo and they engaged in the
lumber, stave, shingle and general merchandise business upon a
comprehensive scale. They owned and operated three mills, lo-
cated at diflferent points in Steuben county, and at Canisteo they
conducted a large and well equipped general store. The firm of
Waldo & Davison continued operations for a period of eighteen
years, at the expiration of which the partnership was dissolved.
Mr. Davison thereafter continued in the lumber and mercantile
business in an individual way, and he did not abate his activities
until the last few years of his long, honorable and useful life. In
addition to his business interests he was prominently concerned
with the agricultural industry, in connection with which he owned
a valuable farm about one mile east of the village of Canisteo, in
the fertile Canisteo valley.

In politics Mr. Davison originally gave his allegiance to the
Whig party, but he cast in his lot with the Republican party at
the time of its organization and ever afterward continued a zealous
supporter of its principles and policies. He showed a deep but
quiet interest in public affairs and was admirably fortified in his

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opinions as to political affairs. Though progressive and public-
spirited in his attitude as a citizen he had naught of desire for
public office, but in 1873 he yielded to the importunities of his
fellow citizens and consented to become a candidate for the office
of president of the village of Canisteo, to which position he was
elected by a majority that gave effective voucher for the esteem
and confidence reposed in him in the community that so long repre-
sented his home. He gave a businesslike administration as chief
executive of the village, but could not be induced to serve a second
term. He was affiliated with Morning Star Lodge, No. 65, Free
& Accepted Masons, from the year 1862 until his death, and was
deeply appreciative of the noble teachings of this time-honored
fraternal order. He united with the Methodist Episcopal church
of Canisteo in 1868, and ever afterward was one of its most zealous
and consistent adherents, as was also his cherished and devoted
wife. He was president of the Canisteo Cemetery Association for
a number of years and was ever ready to extend his aid to those
"in any way afflicted, in mind, body or estate." His heart was
attuned to sympathy and his impulses were ever generous and
kindly. He gave liberally of his lai^gess to worthy charitable and
benevolent causes, and also contributed to the support of enter-
prises and measures tending to advance the social and material
well-being of the community.

On the 3d of October, 1850, Mr. Davison led to the hymeneal
altar Miss Louise Jackson, daughter of Josiah and Betsey Jack-
son, of Schuyler county, this state, and the two children -of this
union died in infancy. Mrs. Davison was summoned to the life
eternal on the 23d of June, 1855.

On the 23d of November, 1856, was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. Davison to Miss Martha Carter, who was born in Schoharie
county, New York, and who was a- daughter of Rev. Chauncey
and Maria (Plough) Carter, who were at the time residents of
Canisteo. The mother is still living, making her home with her
son, Milton W., at Canisteo. Mr. and Mrs. Davison became the
parents of five children, whose names and respective dates of birth
are here noted: Ida L., August 26, 1^59; George A., October 1,
1861; Hiland T., March 25, 1863; Ella M., June 14, 1865, and
Milton W., July 2, 1867. All of the children are living except
George A., who died June 1, 1862, and Hiland T., who died De-
cember 4, 1864.

j

Waldo Wickham Willaed, of the law firm of Willard and
Rogers, Corning, New York, was born in Tioga, Pennsylvania,
February 25, 1865. In his youth he had excellent educational ad-
vantages. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, at Exeter, New
Hampshire, where he graduated in 1883. Then he matriculated
at Harvard University. He completed his classical course at Har-
vard in 1887, and in 1891 received his degree from the Harvard
Law School. That same year he was admitted to the bar in New

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York city, and there entered upon the practice of his profession,
which he continued at that place for five years. Coming to Corn-
ing in 1896 he opened an office and practiced alone until 1909,
when he formed a partnership with Mr. Rogers, under the firm
name of Willard & Rogers.

Politically Mr. Willard is a Republican, and since becoming
identified with Corning has filled the office of city attorney. He
was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club and the D. K. E. at
Harvard. He is unmarried.

William S. Shults, merchant and town collector, Bath, Steu-
ben county, New York, was born at Bath, August 30, 1875, a son
of Arnold and Ella (Gray) Shults. His father is living, retired
from business. His mother died in 1877. Mr. Shults married for
his second wife Anna Buck, v/ho is also dead. His present wife
was Rachel Adams. He is now in his seventieth year. By his
first marriage he had children (besides William S., the immediate
subject of this notice), who were named as follows in the order
of their nativity: Clara, Fanny, Frank and Lydia. Clara is the
wife of George Little, of Bath. Fanny lives at Goodland, Newton
county, Indiana. Frank is a feed merchant and farmer at Bath.
Lydia is the wife of Newman S. Look, of Bath. Mr. Shults has
three half-brothers: Daniel, Edward and Grattan. Daniel is a
druggist at Ithaca, New York. Edward is in the feed trade at
Bath. Grattan is a student.

William S. Shults attended public schools till he was four-
teen years old and then helped his father on the farm till 1898.
In that year he bought the home farm. In 1902 he sold it to his
brother and came to Bath to accept a position as a clerk. He was
thus employed three years. After that he was for two years at
Buffalo, New York, as foreman on some railway construction work.
Then, until 1907, he was in the grocery business at Lackawanna,
New York. He sold out there to join his brother in the feed busi-
ness at Bath. Politically he is a Democrat. So great is his per-
sonal popularity that in 1909 he overcame by one hundred and
sixty-five votes a regular Republican majority of five hundred, and
was elected to the office of town collector, which he is filling with
such ability and integrity that his advancement in the official
management of town affairs would seem to be assured. Since he
was seventeen years old he has been a member of the Grange. As
a member for many years of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1,
of Bath, he gained so good a reputation as a fireman that he is
now assistant chief of the fire department of the city. He is a
high Mason and a member of the Presbyterian church.

Mrs. Shults was Miss Mary Herron. She was born at Bath
April 9, 1874, a daughter of James and Mary (Rutherford) Her-
ron. Her father is a well-known retired farmer. She has borne
her husband a son, James Herron Shults, now nine years old and
a promising student in school. Enough has been said of Mr.

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Shults to show that he is active in puhlic affairs, efficient and
helpful as a citizen, a leader in public and private life. His public
spirit, many times tested, has never been found wanting, and he
is in the forefront of all movements for the enhancement of the
public weal.

L. Wilson Rockwell was born in Olean, New York, Novem-
ber 2, 1 855. His parents were Lemuel and Mary (Van Scoter)
Rockwell, of English and Dutch descent respectively. The father
was born blind, but was well educated and a musician, and for a
number of years was a teacher of the profession in Hornellsville.
L. Wilson was the third of eight children. He received a common
school education and at thirteen years of age he secured a position
as bundle boy and clerk in the dry goods store of Adsit & Tuttle,
holding the position ten years. In 1879 the firm of M. A. Tuttle
& Company was organized with Mr. Rockwell as the company.
In 1883 this partnership was dissolved and he removed to Wells-
ville and with his brother, H. H. Rockwell, organized the firm of
Rockwell Brothers, which firm still exists.

In 1886 Mr. Rockwell removed to Cortland, New York, and
there organized another firm under the same name. In 1888 he
returned to Hornellsville, and in 1890, with M. A. Tuttle, or-
ganized the firm of Tuttle & Rockwell. The business of this firm
grew to such proportions that iu 1903 it was incorporated under
the present name, The Tuttle & Rockwell Company. In 1891
Mr. Rockwell, in connection with his brother, J. L. Rockwell, and
F. P. Merrill, formed a partnership under the firm name of Rock-
well, Merrill & Company for the manufacture of silk gloves. This
business was very successful and was the beginning of the silk in-
dustry in Hornell. Ten years later Mr. Merrill withdrew from
the firm and two years later the Rockwells became members of the
corporation of Julius Kayser & Company, the largest silk glove
manufacturers in the world. Mr. Rockwell is also one of the or-
ganizers and a director in the following corporations: The Citi-
zens' National Bank, Wellsville, New York; the Bank of Steuben,
Hornell; the Steuben Sanitarium Company, Hornell, and the
Plymouth Lumber Company, Plymouth, North Carolina ; he is
president of the Bank of Steuben, also the Steuben Sanitarium
Company, and treasurer of the Tuttle & Rockwell Company.

Mr. Rockwell is a life-long Republican, but never held public
office. He is a member of Hornellsville Lodge, No. 331, F. & A.
M., and is past master of the same; and is also a member of the
Steuben County Chapter and DeMolay Commandery. He is a
communicant of the Episcopal church and a member of its vestry.
He was married in 1884 to Miss Lizzie Smith, of Wellsville, who
died in January, 1892. He was again married in 1895 to Miss
Minnie Smith, of Hornell. He has two children, Robert F. Rock-
well, of Paonia, Colorado, and Miss Jeanette, of Hornell.

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AsHAHEL W. Reed.— The real estate, loan and insurance in-
terests have no abler or more successful representative in Steuben
county than the popular citizen whose name is the title of this
brief notice. Mr. Reed is a native of Birdsall, Allegany county,
New York, born February 7, 1880, a son of Cyrus and Nettie
(Davidson) Reed. His parents, both born in New York state,
were both living when this work was in preparation. Their home
is in Hornell. Ashahel William Reed, their only child, was edu-
cated in the high school at Almond, Allegany county, New York,
at Alfred University, Alfred, Allegany county, and at Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York. After having taken a special
course in civil engineering he came to Hornell as city engineer,
which office he filled with great efficiency and credit. When he
relinquished- it he opened an office in Hornell as a civil engineer
and was successful in the venture almost from its beginning. His
official work had made him well known and in its prosecution he
had made many friends, some of whom became his personal cus-
tomers. After giving his undivided attention to engineering for<
two years he took up in connection with it real estate and insur-
ance. In the development of his business real estate and insurance
gradually came to demand the greater share of his attention, but
he has continued to make a specialty of reliable engineering work
and has always been in good demand in that way. His offices,
formerly in the Adsit building, are now in the Conderman block.

On November 20, 1909, Mr. Reed married Miss Ina Josephine
Hann, of Andover, Allegany county, daughter of Charles and
Viola J. (Young) Hann. He is a Republican and a strong tem-
perance man. In his religious affiliation he is a Presbyterian,
active in church work and secretary of the Sunday-school. He is
a firm believer in the future of Hornell and is ready at all times
in a public-spirited way to do what he can for the good of the
community.

Perry Delos Greene, D. D. S., Hammondsport, Steuben
county, New York, was born in Cattaraugus county, New York,
December 8, 1873, a son of Franklin P. Greene, who was born in
November, 1852. Franklin P. Greene, a merchant at Hammonds-
port, came there in 1897 from Belmont, Allegany county, New
York, where he had conducted a store two years. He had gone to
Belmont from Wellsville, in the same county, where, he had car-
ried on merchandising on a large scale for fourteen years. Polit-
ically he is a Republican, zealous for the success of his party. He
is one of the town trustees of Hammondsport and is otherwise
influential in local and county affairs. He is a Mason of high de-
gree, being a member of Damascus Temple, Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, of Rochester, New York. He is also a member of the
Improved Order of Red Men. He married Elizabeth Smith, daugh-
ter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Sheer) Smith, of Schuyler coun-
ty. New York.

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 683

Perry Delos Greene, D. D. S., only child of Franklin P. and
Elizabeth (Smith) Greene, finished at school when he was seven-
teen and entered the Philadelphia Dental College, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, where, after three years' study, he was duly grad-
uated and given a diploma as a doctor of dental surgery. He
practiced his profession a year at Wellsville, Allegany county,
and seven years at Belmont, in the same county. In 1902 he lo-
cated at Hammondsport. Dr. Greene is an active Republican and has
been elected mayor of Hammondsport, which responsible office he
has held satisfactorily to his fellow citizens of aU parties. He is
an Elk, an Odd Fellow, a Red Man and a Woodman.

Benjamin F. LaRue.— A native son of Steuben county, who
has gained prestige as one of the successful members of the bar
of New York city, is Mr. LaRue, whose offices are located at 143
Liberty street. He is a "lawyer and is incumbent of the position
of claims attorney for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Mr. LaRue
was born at Hornell, Steuben county, New York, on the 1st of
January, 1873, and is the son of Henry B. and Minnie (Crandell)
LaRue, the former of whom was born in New York city and the
latter in Schuyler county. New York.

The father established his home in Steuben county in 1868,
beginning his career as a locomotive engineer. He later, in 1873,
became a contractor in connection with the construction of steam
railways and in the handling of supplies utilized in this line of
enterprise. He has retired from active business and resides at
Baltimore, Maryland. His wife died when about sixty-five years
of age and is survived by two sons, of whom the subject of this
review is, the younger. The elder son, Belmont M., is engaged in
the real estate business in New York city, with offices at 180
Broadway.

Benjamin F. LaRue was reared to maturity in his native town,
to whose public schools he is indebted for his early educational
training, which included a course in the high school. At the age
of nineteen years he removed to New York city, where he secured
employment in the law office of Henry Granger. On account of a
severe illness and poor health he finally went to the city of Roch-
ester, where he became managing clerk in the law office of John
Van Voorhees, under whose able preceptorship he began reading law,
in which he made rapid and substantial progress in the prepara-
tion and trial of suits. His duties were so numerous that he had
little time for a careful study of the theory of the law. While
there, however, he tried forty-eight cases in all the courts and
lost but seven.

In 1898, realizing the importance of a thorough legal educa-
tion, he returned to New York city and in 1901 graduated from
the New York Law School, after which he was admitted to the
bar of his native state. He then entered the legal department of
the Brie Railroad, maintaining his headquarters in Jersey City,

684 HISTOKY OF STEUBEX COUXTY

and in 1903 became identified with the legal department of the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company, with of-
ficial headquarters in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was ad-
mitted to the bar and remained until the 1st of January, 1906,
when he was transferred to the offices of the company in New
York city.

Since 1908 Mr. LaRue has held his present position as claims
attorney with the Lehigh Valley railroad corporation, having
charge of all litigation founded on tort in the states of New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Mr. LaRue is Republican in his
political proclivities, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and
is an appreciative member of the Steuben Society of New York
city.

In December, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
LaRue to iMiss Lallah Dymoke St. John, who was born and reared
at Port Jervis, New York. Their charming little daughter, Kath-
ryn Crandell LaRue, was born August 7, 1910.

William R. Park, secretary of the Park, Winton & True
Company, Addison, was born in that town August 22, 1869, a son
of James H. Park. The latter, a native of Woodhull and a life-
long resident of the county, was for many years a manufacturer
at Addison and died there in 1901. His widow, a native and now
a resident of Addison, was Miss Theresa Adelaide Reynolds. Wil-
liam R. Park has a brother, Charles F. Park, who also was born
and reared in Steuben county and who is known in business
circles as vice-president of the Park, Winton & True Company.

WiUiam R. Park, eldest son of James H. and Theresa Ade-
laide (Reynolds) Park, was reared in Addison and educated in
the public school of that village. When he was about twenty
years old he became an employe in his father's manufactory with
a view to taking a responsible place in the business in the course
of events. In 1901, his father having passed away, he became ad-
ministrator of his estate. The Park, Winton & True Company
was organized in 1910, with George I. True as president, Charles
F. Park, vice-president, and WiUiam R. Park, secretary. It is
the oldest factory of any kind in the vicinity of Addison and
one of the oldest sash, door and blind factories in the country, and
gives employment the year around to about one hundred men. It
is such institutions as this that help to build up towns, and Addi-
son gladly acknowledges obligation to Mr. Park and his prede-
cessors and associates for very material benefits in all the years of
their operations there. Mr. Park is a stockholder and director in
the Yadkin Lumber Company, of Yadkin, North Carolina, which
owns fifty-five thousand acres of timber land in the western part
of that state, and the Embreeville Timber Company, of Embree-
ville, Tennessee, that holds title to thirty thousand acres of tim-
ber in the eastern part of that state.

Mr. Park married Miss Carrie M. Ainsworth, daughter of
Dr. H. R. Ainsworth, of Addison, in 1900, and they have two chil-

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTT 685

dren : James H. and Emma A. He is identified with the Masons,
the Odd Fellows and the Elks. Energetic, progressive and of
friendly disposition, he counts his friends by the score wherever
he may go throughout Steuben and surrounding counties on both
sides of the state line.

Claud D. Carboll.— Avoca is indeed fortunate in the per-
sonality of him who stands at the helm of the municipal ship, for
he possesses in good measure those qualities which best adorn the
incumbent of the mayor's office— sound judgment, fairness and
nicely-balanced justice, and that executive capacity which can make
a reality out of a good project. He was elected in March, 1908,
for his third term as mayor of Avoca, and that his fitness for the
office was generally recognized was made manifest by the fact that
he was elected by a large Republican majority, and he has amply
fulfilled all the faith reposed in him. He was born July 22, 1870,
in Yates county, New York, the son of Alfred and Sarah Carroll.
The father was born in the year 1832 in Columbia county, having
gone there as a boy with his father, William Carroll. He is of
noble lineage, his great-grandfather having been one Sir Charles
Carroll, who emigrated to North Carolina. The mother of the sub-
ject was Sarah De Reimans, who died in 1903, at the age of sixty-
eight years. Mr. Carroll is one of a family of eight. His only
sister, Grace, is the wife of H. Turner, of Utica, New York; Fred
resides at Penn Yan ; Charles, at Yatesville ; Pearl, at Avoca ; Gor-
don, near Plattsburg, Yates county; Granger, in Boston, Massa-
chusetts, and Winfield, at Benton, Yates county.

Mayor Carroll received his preliminary education in the public
schools, being graduated at the age of seventeen from the Yates-
viUe school, and subsequently attending Penn Yan Academy for
two terms. He then engaged in the wheel manufacturing business
at Shortsville, New York, and continued with this enterprise for
two years. Following that he was for one year employed in the
same line in Syracuse, New York, and in 1889 he came to Avoca,
when he became associated with the Avoca Wheel Company. He
advanced rapidly, becoming general superintendent of the plant
and a member of the directory, and he has been largely instru-
mental in making of this enterprise one of the thriving concerns
of the town.

Mayor Carroll has for a long time been active in politics and
is devoted to the principles of his party, the Democratic, and has
always been ready to do anything to proclaim its ideas and sup-
port its candidates. He enjoys the confidence of his neighbors and
has been mayor three terms and a member of the school board for
three years. He is affiliated with the F. & A. M. Lodge, No. 673, of
Avoca, and with the Maccabees, also of this place.

On the 27th day of December, 1892, Mayor Carroll was united
in marriage. to Miss Minnie Schultz, daughter of George Sehultz, .
of Avoca township, who died at the age of seventy-three years. He

686 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY

was a prominent representative of the agricultural interests of
the county. The mother, whose maiden names was Mary Martin,
died in October of the year 1910, at the age of seventy-one years.
Mayor and Mrs. Carroll are the parents of the following children :
Eva, aged sixteen; Bernice, aged thirteen; Ellen, aged eleven;
Jeanette, aged five, and Francis, aged two. The three eldest attend
school. Mrs. Carroll is a faithful and valued member of the Pres-
byterian church.

Austin Latheop, for many years a prominent citizen of Corn-
ing, New York, was born and reared in the neighboring state of
Pennsylvania, Tioga being his native county and 1839 the year of
his birth. His father, Austin Lathrop, was born in Otsego county,
New York, in 1805, but the greater part of his life was spent in
Tioga county, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged extensively in
farming and lumbering. He died in Tioga county in 1882, at the
age of seventy-eight years. By his first wife, who before marriage
was Miss Amy Walker, he had seven children, three daughters and
four sons: Margaret, Martha, Mary, Austin, DeLass, Daniel and
William. His second marriage was to a Miss Devenport. For his
third wife he married a Mrs. Colvin, nee Knox, who bore him four
children: Mrs. Horatio Patrick of Scranton, Pennsylvania;
Charles K., of Gailton, Pennsylvania; Anna, Mrs. Weeks, and
John C.

Austin Lathrop passed his early life on his father's farm and
received his education in the common schools of his native county.
At the age of sixteen he entered upon a business career at a lum-
ber inspector in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and later for two
years was employed as clerk at Lawreneeville, that state. Coming
to Corning, Ncav York, in 1859, he accepted a position as clerk in
the hardware store of C. C. B. Walker, with whom he was asso-
ciated until 1888, having been taken in as a partner in 1862. After
Mr. Walker's death in 1888 Mr. Lathrop sold his interest in the
business and has since been engaged in the lumber business and
in railroad building. From time to time he has made investments
in various enterprises. He is a trustee of the American Surety
Company of New York city ; director in the Safety Car Heating &
Lighting Company, of New York city; director in the Standard
Coupler Company, of New York city; president of the Wheeler
Holden Company, lumber and tie dealers of Buffalo, New York,
and vice-president of the Empire Coke & Gas Company of Geneva,
New York.

Politically Mr. Lathrop is a Democrat, having affiliated with
the Democratic party all his life and always taken an active in-
terest in public affairs. For nine years he was a supervisor. He
served two years as president of Corning, and for eleven years he
was superintendent of all the state prisons in the state of New
York. Fraternally he is a Mason and religiously an Episcopalian.
Mr. Lathrop married, in 1893, Mrs. Emma F. Wellington.

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 687

MuEEAY D. CoEBETT, engaged in farming and teaming in
Avoea, New York, is one of Steuben county's substantial and pro-
gressive citizens. He is a native son, his birth having occurred in
Cohocton township, June 24, 1878, and the names of his parents
being John and Sarah Fairbrather Corbett. These worthy people
are now living at Avoca.

Mr. Corbett is one of a family of ten living children, six of
whom are sons and four daughters. Ida is the wife of F. L. Mat-
toon; Mamie married Pay Edwards; Mabel is the wife of Walter
Shont, of Avoca ; Lena, aged sixteen, resides with her brother, the
subject of the sketch, and attends school; John resides in Avoea,
as does also Albert H., Frank L. and Matthew, and the youngest
brother lives with Mr. Corbett and attends school.

Murray D. Corbett received his education in the public
schools, terminating his educational discipline at the age of four-
teen years, and he remained beneath the parental roof until his six-
teenth year. He was then employed as a farm assistant by various
agriculturists in the vicinity until 1906, when he removed to Avoca
and engaged in heavy teaming and drafting in association with
his brother, and he also conducted a livery stable and milk busi-
ness. This he has continued until the present day, building up a
fine trade and enjoying the confidence of his patrons. The
brother with whom he is' associated is Frank L.

Mr. Corbett was a recruit to ranks of the benedicts on Decem-
ber 14, 1898, the lady of his choice being Eula Young, born July
20, 1878, in Fort Plain, New York. She is a daughter of Abram
Young, who died December 2, 1908, at the age of seventy-two
years. He was born in the eastern part of New York and was a
carpenter and patternmaker. He removed to Bath, where he re-
sided for fifteen years and engaged in the pursuit of his trades,
and he afterward farmed for the fifteen years prior to his death, the
scene of his agricultural activities being Avoea township. The
maiden name of Mr. Young's wife was Frances M. Smith, and she
is now living in Bath township at the age of sixty-eight years. She
is the daughter of J. Smith, of England. Mrs. Corbett has two
brothers: Frank W., a Methodist pastor, of Pennsylvania, and
George I., a physician, of Baltimore, Maryland; and one sister,
Anna, who is the wife of L. Everson, of Bath.

Politically Mr. Corbett marches beneath the standards of the
Republican party and his fraternal affiliations extend to the Wood-
mien of America. His wife is a valued and eoDsistent member of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and belong to the Ladies' Aid
Society. Mr. and Mrs. Corbett have one child, a daughter, Frances
Luella, who is one year old.

Spencer H. Stuart, M. D., of Hornell, was bom in the town
of Howard, Steuben county, New York, October 20, 1867. Samuel
W. Stuart, his father, Irish by birth, name to Steuben county as
a boy of fourteen with his parents, Samuel and Sarah (Wood)

688 HISTOllY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

Stuart. The family located in the town of Bath, on Campbell
Creek. Samuel W. Stuart married Mary Ann Carroll, who was
born in Bath, a daughter of Andrew and Ann Carroll. Her father
was, like her husband, Irish and had come, as he had done, to
America as a boy. Soon after their marriage Samuel VV. and
Mary Ann (Carroll) Stuart located in the town of Howard, where
he acquired a good farm, which was his home during the greater
part of more than forty years of his experience as a teacher in
public schools in Steuben county. He died October 17, 1908, leav-
ing a widow and four sons and three daughters, all of whom were
living when these paragraphs are written.

The future doctor of medicine passed his boyhood days in the
town of Howard and there gained a primary education. Later he
was a student at the academy at Canisteo. For a year he was a
school steacher, studying medicine in his leisure hours. In 1888
he submitted himself to the preceptorship of the late Dr. C. B.
Robertson, and that same year entered the Columbus Medical Col-
lege at Columbus, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the
degree of M. D. in 1892. He also took a course at the University
of Buffalo, where he graduated in 1899, and also from the Uni-
versity of the State of New York in the same year. Not long
afterward he located at Cameron, Steuben county. New York,
where he practiced his profession successfully for ten years. From
Cameron he removed to Hornell, where he has risen to a high place
in his profession. Giving attention to family practice he has
gained the confidence of the public to such an extent that he num-
bers among his regular patrons some of the best people not only
in Hornell but throughout the surrounding country. He is a
member of the Hornell Medical and Surgical Association, of the
Steuben County Medical Society, of the New York State Medical
Society and of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Stuart is a Mason, a member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows (Hornellsville Lodge, No. 331) and of the Knights
of the Maccabees. On January 9, 1895, he married Miss Nellie
A. Timmerman, daughter of Henry and Martha Timmerman, of
Bath, New York, where she was reared and educated. Politically
he is a stanch Republican, and though not in active politics he
wields a recognized influence in local party affairs. As a life-long
resident of Steuben county he is public-spiritedly interested in
everything that pertains to its advancement and prosperity.

The following items of information concerning the brothers
and sisters of Dr. Stuart may be found interesting in this con-
nection. Rev. Aaron C. Stuart, a minister of the gospel, is sta-
tioned at Vernon, Oneida county. New York. Robie W. Stuart is
farming near Bath, Steuben county. Lena A. married Melvin
Daniels and is living at Hornell. Rev. Elmer J. Stuart is pastor
of a Presbyterian church at Oneida, New York. Sarah L. mar-
ried William Hoyt, of Howard, New York. Ellen J. is living
with her mother on the Stuart farm in Howard.

HISTOBY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 68S

Leon M. Kysoe, M. D.— The family of which this prominent
physician is a representative has an interesting history. Only that
part of it which refers more or less directly to Doctor Kysor and
his American ancestry can be here included, however. The name
has been long known in Prussia. The grandfather of Doctor
Kysor 's grandfather in the paternal line of descent was, while em-
ployed in the German service, impressed into the service of Eng-
land against the colonies in the time of our Eevolutionary war,
but at the first opportunity he left the British service to become a
patriot soldier, fighting for the people of the side of the contro-
versy that had his sympathy.

Dr. Leon M. Kysor was born in Howard, Steuben county.
New York, September 10, 1872, a son of W. Byron Kysor, who was
a son of Archibald Kysor, a millwright by trade, who built some
of the early flour mills in Steuben county. W. Byron Kysor was
reared in Steuben county and died there at the early age of thirty-
seven years. He married Frances Olivia Johnson, a native of
Howard, Steuben county. New York, daughter of a pioneer from
Pennsylvania. Six children were born to them, the immediate sub-
ject of this sketch being the oldest. He began his education in
common schools near his childhood home and after he was eleven
years old, when he went to Hornell, he continued it in the public
schools there. Taking up the study of medicine and surgery he
was duly graduated from the medical department of the Universi-
ty of Buffalo in 1903.

He began his professional practice by a year's connection
with the Steuben Sanitarium. Then he was for some time, until
Dr. Parkhill's death, associated with him. Since that event he has
been in independent practice. One of the successful and progres-
sive medical men of the city, he is identified with the Hornell Med-
ical and Surgical Association, the Steuben County Medical So-
ciety, the New York State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association. He is a Mason and affiliates with other secret
social and beneficial orders.

Dr. Kysor married Miss Bertha M. Eells, daughter of James
Eells, in August, 1905. He is a director in the Maple City Loan
and Savings Association and has from time to time been connected
with other important local movements. His public spirit is such
that he cordially responds to any demand upon it involving the
advancement of any considerable number of his fellow citizens.
Professionally he is popular, enjoying the confidence of the gen-
eral public and numbering among his patients some of the 'best
families in the city.

Floyd E. Adair— Prominent in the business life of Atlanta
is Floyd E. Adair, proprietor of the Atlanta Flouring Mills. He
has reason to be particularly loyal to Steuben county, for his birth
occurred within its pleasant limits, its date being 1873 and the
place Cohocton. He is the son of Edward and Osca (McCarty)

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Adair and the family consists of two children besides himself,
Verne and Maud. Mr. Adair spent his early days in his native
town, attending the common and high schools and when stiU a lad
he developed an interest in milling. His first practical experience
in this line was gained in Rochester, New York. He was later en-
gaged in a mill situated in the Adirondack Mountains and finally
found his way to New York city, where he secured employment in
a great flouring mill where there were turned out per day twenty-
five hundred barrels of flour.

Thoroughly familiar with the business in aU its phases, under-
standing the latest and best methods in the production of high
grade flour, Mr. Adair wisely gratified his ambition to become estab-
lished independently and in 1906 became proprietor of the At-
lanta Flouring Mills. This mill is twenty-six by forty feet in
dimension, two stories high and has an engine room eighteen by
twenty-six feet. It is operated by steam power and has a forty
horsepower engine. Its capacity is twenty-five barrels of flour and
twenty-five tons of feed per day. He has the latest and most ap-
proved machinery and his flour is of the finest grade. Not only
does he manufacture all the flour and feed that can be turned out
in a mill of such capacity, but he also keeps on hand for the home
market a stock of feed of all description.

In 1897 Mr. Adair was united in marriage to Miss Emma
Bothwell and two young children are growing to manhood be-
neath their roof, these being by name Edward and Harold.

C. L. Crane, who is winning enviable success at the bar of
Steuben county, was born in Cameron, that county, September 12,
1879, a son of Milton E. Crane, also a native of Cameron. His
grandfather, who was a native of New York and by trade a black-
smith, also one of the historic old-fashioned schoolteachers who
flourished in the earlier part of the last century, was a pioneer in
Steuben county. He taught his son, father of the immediate sub-
ject of this sketch, the blacksmith's trade, and the latter is in busi-
ness as a blacksmith at Addison. Mr. Crane's mother was Miss
Sarah Snyder, daughter of Daniel Snyder, a pioneer in Steuben
county, where she was born. The Cranes are of Scotch-Irish-Eng-
lish ancestry, the Snyders are of Holland descent. Mr. and Mrs.
Crane had six children, three of whom were sons, and aU but one
of the six are living.

C. L. Crane was the fourth in order of birth and the youngest
son. He was about ten years old when his parents moved to Addi-
son from Cameron. After having been graduated from the Addi-
son high school in 1896 he was until 1900 in business at Hammonds-
port, at Hornell and at Addison. In the year last mentioned he
entered upon a year's special work in the College of Liberal Arts
in the Syracuse University. He was duly graduated from the law
department of that institution and in 1904, after some preliminary
experience, went to Long Island City and there began the practice

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of his profession in the different courts of the state. In 1905 he
returned to Addison and opened a law office there. In 1907 he
formed a partnership with E. C. Smith, which existed till January,
1910, since when he has been in individual practice. He gives
attention to general legal business in and out of the courts, is con-
scientious in taking cases, respecting both his clients and the court,
and when he has accepted a case is indefatigable in pushing it to
success by all fair means known to shrewd and resourceful lawyers.
He is an influential member of the Steuben County Bar Associa-
tion, is an Ancient Free and Accepted Mason and is identified with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the Delta Chi
and other college societies. He married, August 14, 1906, Miss Grace
A. Strang, daughter of F. D. and Alice Strang, of Westfield,
Pennsylvania, and they have a little daughter whom they named
Janet. She was bom March 31, 1910.

In his political alliances Mr. Crane is Republican. He was
secretary of the Steuben County Republican Committee from 1906
to 1909 and has been politically active otherwise, with the result
that his usefulness is recognized by Republicans throughout the
county. He has for a number of years been attorney for the vil-
lage of Addison and he is doing good work for the town as corres-
ponding secretary for the Addison Board of Trade. In many
ways and on numerous occasions he has demonstrated a degree of
public spirit that has placed him among the leaders in the valley
and there are those who predict that he has only to remain in and
continue to labor for the county of his nativity to receive such
honors as old Steuben has been wont in all her history to bestow
on her favorite sons.

William G. Coye, of Homell, is one of the oldest insurance,
loan and real estate men in Steuben county and one of the oldest
in the country. He is a native of Otsego -county, New York, born
September 16, 1833. J. Morris Coye, his father, was born in New
York state and was among the early settlers in this county. He
was a printer by trade and carried on a business in his line in
Hornellsville several years. When he passed away he was mourned
as a pioneer. He married Sophronia Norton, a native of New York
state, who bore him a son and two daughters. Frances is dead.
Mary (Mrs. Isbel) was living in 1910 in California.

Mr. Coye 's childhood and youth were spent in his native coun-
ty, where he acquired a practical education in the public schools.
He came to Hornellsville about 1860 and was for a time a clerk in
a dry goods store. In 1866 he made his start in the insurance busi-
ness, with N. M. Crane and C. H. Young. About 1874 Mr. Crane
withdrew from the firm and its style became Coye & Young and
was so continued until Mr. Coye assumed individual proprietor-
ship of the enterprise. Real estate operations and the handling of
loans were added to the business, and under Mr. Coye's manage-
ment have become important factors in it. He is regarded as one

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of the best judges of local real estate values in the city, and in the
negotiation (5f loans he has shown rare tact and shrewdness. So
long has he been in business in Hornell that his office is one of
the landmarks of the town, not only one of the things that bridged
the transition of the place from village to city, but one of the liv-
ing interests that connect the present with the days of primitive
things. So well established is Mr. Coye's reputation for integrity
in all his dealings that no one in Hornell would hesitate to entrust
to him any commission however large or however difficult.

In 1873 Mr. Coye married Miss Julia A. Lockwood, daughter
of Nelson Lockwood. She was born in New York of Connecticut
ancestry. In his political allegiance Mr. Coye is a Republican,
and has been in all the history of his party. In the days before
the war, when the people were divided on the question of slavery,
he espoused the cause of Fremont and of Lincoln. Through the
period of the Civil war he was steadfastly Republican and "Un-
ion." Through the period of reconstruction he supported the party
that he believed had put down the rebellion and saved the nation
from dissolution and was trying to reunite it in the only practical
way in which he believed the work could be done. In the later
days of our great national expansion he was proud of the party
that was in power while most of it was brought about, and in these
days of political unrest, out of which he believes better things and
grander things are to come, he sees no reason for forsaking the
straight road that he has followed safely through so much of tur-
moil and of evolution.

Edward W. Beyan, M. D., for many years a leading practi-
tioner of Corning, New York, was born on a farm in Steuben coun-
ty, November 6, 1832, and belongs to a family long resident of the
"Empire state." His grandfather, George Bryan, a blacksmith
by trade, was born April 7, 1779, and his grandmother Bryan,
whose maiden name was Covart, was born March 23, 1775, both in
New York. For some years they lived in Seneca county, from
whence they moved to Steuben county when their son, Abram C,
the Doctor's father, was a small boy. Abram C. Bryan was born
in Seneca county October 21, 1806, passed his life as a farmer in
Steuben county, and died here February 2, 1895. He married,
October 11, 1831, Asenath Conlogue, who was born in Ontario
county. New York, August 1, 1806, and who died in Steuben coun-
ty March 18, 1882. They were the parents of six children: Dr.
Edward W. ; Catherine J.; William J., who was a physician; El-
mina; Laura, and Mrs. Mary E. Orcutt. The latter, now a widow,
was born November 2, 1840, and resides in Ciorham, Ontario county.
New York. All of the children are deceased excepting the subject
of this review and Mrs. Orcutt.

Edward W. Bryan was reared on his father's farm and was
occupied in agricultural pursuits until he reached his majority, in
his youth having meagre opportunity for obtaining an education.

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After he was grown, however, he determined to educate himself,
and began by utilizing all his spare moments. He worked for
seventy-five cents a day at odd jobs at whatever he could find to
do. Later he taught school in the winter and spent the summer
in the harvest fields, and all the while pursued his studies with a
view to entering the medical profession. In the meantime he spent
two years and a half as agent for the Erie Railroad Company at
Savona. In 1865 he entered the Homeopathic Hospital College at
Cleveland, Ohio, where he pursued a three years' course and grad-
uated in 1873. Previous to his graduation he had practiced for a
short time in Illinois, and after he received his degree he settled
at Ovid, New York, where he opened an office and practiced suc-
cessfully for a period of eleven years and a half, coming thence to
Corning. Here he has had a successful career as a practitioner,
covering nearly thirty-five years, and during this time has fre-
quently been called into consultation with other prominent physi-
cians not only at Coming and in this vicinity but also to distant
points. He is medical examiner for the Marine Corps of Corning
and is city health officer.

All these years Dr. Bryan has maintained membership in vari-
ous medical organizations. In the New York State Homeopathic
Society he has filled several offices, including that of vice-president.
He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, a char-
ter member of the Hahnemann Society of Cleveland, and the only
living charter member of the Southern Homeopathic Medical So-
ciety of the state. Also he is a charter member of the Corning
"Medical Association. Other fraternal organizations with which
Dr. Bryan has long been identified are the F. & A. M. and the
Royal Arcanum. Politically he is a Republican, religiously a
Methodist.

Edward P. and Charles D. Baker.— Edward P. Baker, a
successful business man of Kanona, New York, member of the firm
of Baker Brothers, who own and operate a mill at Kanona, is a
native of the county where he now resides, born on what is now
the Soldiers' Home grounds, June 14, 1858, a son of John K.
Baker. His grandfather and great-grandfather, as well as his
father, were millers, and the family came to Steuben county from
Pennsylvania.

John K. Baker was born in southern New York May 14, 1824,
and was reared to the work of operating a mill, in which his father
was engaged. In 1857 he removed to Steuben county and estab-
lished a grist mill where the Old Soldiers' Home now stands. Sev-
eral years later he left this location and operated a mill at Howard,
Steuben county, and in 1865 established a mill at Kanona, putting
in good machinery. He bought the building of L. D. Fay, who
had bought of a man named Rowe, and it had first been used as a
sawmill. The first proprietor of this mill was a Mr. Gross, who
built it in 1840.

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Most of the present improvements in the mill were installed
by John K. Baker, and he put in the old turbine machinery. Many
modern appliances have been installed by the present owners. Mr.
Baker married Lucretia Powell, who was born in 1830 in Penn-
sylvania, daughter of Hon. Joseph C. Powell, a member of an old
family in the Keystone state, who married Saloma Ellis. Mr.
Baker and his wife had two sons, Edward P. and Charles D., of
Kanona.

After receiving his education in the public schools of his lo-
cality Edward P. Baker took up the trade of miller and worked
for his father. He has followed this line of work since with ex-
cellent success and in 1906 the firm of Baker Brothers was formed.
They have a reputation for the excellence of their output and are
both men of good judgement and enterprise, using the best and
most modern methods and carrying on the enterprise in a most
businesslike way. Edward P. Baker married Minerva Andrews,
a daughter of Lewis Andrews, and three children have been born
of this union, namely : J. Powell, aged sixteen years ; Ruth Eliza-
beth, aged fourteen, and Helene Brown, aged ten. Mr. Baker pays
strict attention to his business interests, and this is one of the
secrets of his success in life. He does not belong to any -church
and is not active in political affairs, though he votes the Demo-
cratic ticket.

Charles D. Baker, younger of the two sons of John K. Baker
and his wife, was born December 3, 1862, on what is now the Old
Soldiers' Home grounds, and after attending the public schools of
his neighborhood until about nineteen he then engaged in the
milling business. He and his brother are men of similar tastes
and both have a natural aptitude for the work in which they are
now engaged.

On April 8, 1890, C. D. Baker married Ida Snell, who was
-born in Avoea in 1866, daughter of George W. Snell, a farmer
along the Mohawk River, who came to Steuben county with the
Mohawk colony and settled on a farm. He married Margaret Dil-
lenbeck. No children have been born to Mr. Baker and his wife.
He is a member of the Maccabees, and is not actively interested in
political affairs, being entirely absorbed in his business enterprises.

William W. Clabk.— Among those who have conferred dis-
tinction and honor upon the bench and bar of the Empire state is
Judge William Walker Clark, of Wayland, who is now serving
upon the bench of the supreme court of the state, as representative
of the Seventh Judicial District. The distinguished official posi-
tion of which he is incumbent indicated not only the profundity of
his legal knowledge but also the estimate placed upon him by his
fellow men.

Judge Clark claims the state of Illinois as the place of his
nativity and was born in the city of Elgin, which was then a mere
village, on the 14th of February, 1858. His father, DeMarcus

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Clark, was born in Kirldand township, Oneida county. New York,
and the place of his birth was locally known as Clark's Mills, the
family home having there been established in the pioneer days.
DeMarcus Clark was a son of Martin Clark, was born in the bor-
ough of Colchester, New London county, Connecticut, and was
a child at the time when his father, Noah Clark, a native of Eng-
land, removed from Connecticut to Oneida county, New York.
Noah Clark secured a tract of wild land in Oneida county, where
he reclaimed a productive farm and where he continued to be
identified with agricultural pursuits until his death. Martin Clark
likewise devoted his entire active career to the great basic industry
of agriculture and was a resident of Oneida county at the time of
his death, which occurred on the 7th of September, 1870. His
wife, whose maiden name was Wealthy Smith, was born and reared
in the state of New York and she was summoned to the life eternal
in 1858. Both were consistent members of the Baptist church and
in polities he originally gave his support to the Whig party, from
which he transferred his allegiance to the Republican party at the
time of its organization.

DeMarcus Clark was reared to maturity in Oneida county, and
his early educational advantages were those afforded in the com-
mon schools of the locality and period. He continued to be asso-
ciated with his father in the work and management of the home
farm until he had attained to his legal majority and shortly after-
ward, in company with his brother and two of his uncles, he en-
gaged in the manufacturing of cotton cloth in Oneida county. The
little village that grew up about the factory gained the name of
Clark's Mills, and the title has been retained to the present time.
With this line of enterprise Mr. Clark continued to be concerned un-
til his demise, which occurred on the 7th of January, 1871, at which
time he was but fifty-one years of age, his father having passed
away in the preceding September, as already noted. DeMarcus
Clark was a man of superior mentality and strong business acu-
men, the while his impregnable integrity and honor in all the rela-
tions of life commended him to the approbation and implicit con-
fidence of all who knew him. He was a stanch and effective advo-
cate of the principles and policies for which the Republican party
stands sponsor and gave yeoman service in behalf of the party
cause. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Baptist
church and exemplified their Christian faith in their daily lives.
At Utiea, New York, was solemnized the marriage of DeMarcus
Clark to Miss Mary Ella Walker, whose father. Rev. Warhan
Walker, was at that time pastor of the Baptist church in Utica and
the maiden name of his wife was Jane Davis. Mrs. Clark was
-born at Utiea, New York, in the year 1831, and her summons to
eternal rest came in 1860. She was a woman of most gracious
and engaging personality and her memory is revered by her chil-
dren and others who came within the sphere of her gentle influence.
DeMarcus and Mary Ella (Walker) Clark became the parents of

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one son and two daughters, and of the number, Judge Clark of
this review, and one daughter are now living. Lillian C, the
surviving daughter, is now the wife of Robert C. Young, assistant
superintendent of the Utiea Street Railway Company, at Utica,
this state.

Judge William W. Clark gained his preliminary educational
discipline in the public schools of the village of Clark's Mills,
Oneida county, and supplemented this by a three years' course in
Whitston Seminary, at Whitesboro, New York, after leaving which
institution he was matriculated in the law department of Hamilton
College, at Clinton, in which he was graduated in June, 1878, and
from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. In May of
the following year the future jurist established his home at Way-
land, Steuben county, where he engaged in the practice of his
profession and where his earnestness, devotion and technical abil-
ity in the work of his chosen vocation caused him to make rapid and
secure progress, until he gained precedence as one of the leading
members of the bar of this section of the state, with ultimate pre-
cedence as one of the strong lawyers and distinguished jurists of
the old Empire commonwealth. His novitiate in his profession was
attended by its due quota of hardships, however, and he recalls,
with appreciative memory, that when he opened his office in Way-
land his financial resources were of emphatically negative order,
the while the furnishings of his legal sanctum were summed up
in a few well worn law books, one desk, one chair and, perhaps
fortunately, one cuspidor. His first fee as a full-fledged attorney
was the generous sum of seventy-five cents and was paid to him by
Josi&h Gray. His first law suit was that involved in the defending
of an old rag pedler, from whom he received a fee of three dol-
lars. In 1892 Judge Clark was elected district attorney of Steu-
ben county, and he continued incumbent of this position for three
successive terms, during which his administration of the office of
public prosecutor did much to heighten his professional precedence.
In 1902 he was elected to the bench of the county court, upon
which he served for four years, resigning in 1906 with an admir-
able record,— one that proved the solidity of his legal learning and
his fine judicial acumen. He was still serving as county judge at
the time of his appointment to his present distinguished office
as a justice of the supreme court of the state, in March, 1906. This
appointment was conferred by Governor Higgins and was made to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge John F. Parkhurst.
In November of the same year Judge Clark was regularly elected
to the office for the full term of fourteen years. It is specially
significant that in securing this preferment he was the nominee on
both the Republican and Democratic tickets, having first been
nominated by the Republican party, of whose cause he has ever
been a stalwart supporter. That he gained also the support of
the opposition party offers emphatic and unequivocal evidence of

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 699

his personal popularity and of the objective appreciation of his
ability as a legist and jurist.

Judge Clark has continued to maintain his home in Wayland
from the time he here initiated his eiJorts as a young lawyer and
as a citizen he has exemplified the highest civic ideals, the utmost
loyalty and public spirit. He has done much to further the social
and material interests of the community and was one of the princi-
pal factors in organizing the First National Bank of Wayland, of
which he is president. Both he and his wife are active and valued
workers in the Methodist Episcopal church in their attractive little
home city and are prominent in the best social affiairs of the com-
munity. Judge Clark is affiliated with Patchin Lodge No. 883,
Free & Accepted Masons; Wayland Lodge No. 176, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows; and Wayland Camp No. 10,989, Modern
Woodmen of America.

On the 18th of September, 1879, was solemnized the marriage
of Judge Clark to Miss Hattie M. Hill, who was born at Stetson,
Penobscot county, Maine, on the 25th of June, 1857, and who is a
daughter of General Jonathan A. and Lucy (Richards) Hill. The
former passed the closing years of his life in Towanda, Pennsyl-
vania, and was a gallant soldier and officer in the Civil war. Mrs.
Clark was graduated in Wyklan Hall Seminary, in the city of
Toronto, Canada, and in 1875 she was also graduated in Cazenovia
Seminary, at Casenovia, New York. A woman of culture and
much social charm, she proves a gracious chatelain of the beauti-
ful home of the family in Wayland. Judge and Mrs. Clark be-
came the parents of one son, William H., and the great loss and be-
reavement of their liie came when this noble young man was called
from the scene of life's mortal endeavors, on the 20th of February,
1910. A brief tribute to his memory is given in the following
sketch.

William Hill Clark was born in the village of Wayland,
Steuben county, on the 2d of July, 1880, and after completing the
curriculum of the public schools, including the Wayland high
school, he continued his higher academic studies at the Genesee
WesJeyan Seminary, at Lima, this state, and Cazenovia Seminary,
at Cazenovia. In 1901 he entered the First National Bank of
Wayland, of which institution his father was then, as now, presi;
dent, and he eventually became assistant cashier of the institu-
tion, a position of which he continued incumbent until the time of
his death, in addition to which he was a member of the directorate.
He showed marked executive ability and did much to further the
success of this substantial and popular financial institution. From
an appreciative estimate of his character given in an obituary no-
tice in the Wayland Register, under date of February 25, 1910',
are taken the following extracts, with but slight paraphrase-
"William H. Clark has been known by the older inhabitants from
the cradle, and the noble characteristics of his early days were

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steadfast to the end,— intensified and developed -with maturity, as
God in his wisdom provided. He was a typical American gentle-
man,— modest, retiring, courteous, sincere, sympathetic, and
straightforward and honest in his dealings. His home life was
ideal and resplendent with tenderness, love and sympathy, and
all his leisure hours were spent in its enjoyment. His earthly body
has been removed, but the memory of his sweet and beautiful life
and influence will forever linger." To those nearest and dearest
must come a measure of compensation and reconciliation from hav-
ing thus known and touched so strong and so lovable a character, and
in this sense death loses its sting and the grave its victory. Mr.
Clark was identified with representative fraternal, business and
social organizations in his home village, and no young man of the
community had a more inviolable place in popular confidence and
affection. On the 1st of October, 1903, he was united in marriage
to Miss Jeanette C. Smith, only daughter of Edward B. Smith, a
representative citizen of Cazenovia, and since the death of her
husband she has made her home with Judge and Mrs. Clark.

In politics William H. Clark was a stanch supporter of the
cause of the Republican party and he was a devout member of the
Presbyterian church, as is also his widow. He was affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity and the Modern Woodmen of America, was
a charter member of the Wayland Hose Company, and also held
membership in the Wayland Board of Trade. When but twenty-
one years of age he was elected village treasurer of his native
place and he retained this office until the time of his death.

Mrs. Melinda (Wheeler) Bennitt was born in the town of
Urbana, February 25, 1831, a daughter of Obediah and Olive
(Woodward) Wheeler. Her parents came to Steuben county from
Vermont in 1816 and settled in the town of Urbana; where Mr.
Wheeler devoted his energies to farming and blacksmithing. The
foundation of her education was laid in the common schools and
she then entered Clover Street Seminary at Rochester, New York,
where she was graduated in 1852. Three years were devoted to teach-
ing school. In 1856 she married Benjamin Bennitt, also of the
town of Urbana, who became prominent as a lawyer and soldier in
the Civil war. On his first enlistment in the Twenty-third New
York Volunteers he became a lieutenant and on the expiration of
his service in this regiment, he returned home and raised a com-
pany for the Twenty-Second New York Cavalry, which he led as
captain. He was advanced to the rank of major and was brevetted
lieutenant colonel for meritorious service by President Johnson.
He died in Hammondsport in 1889.

Colonel Fred Bennitt, elder son of Benjamin and Melinda
Bennitt, is a prominent lawyer of Joliet, Illinois, where he is also
interested in manufacturing enterprises. Colonel Bennitt was
for many years in command of the Third Illinois National Guard
and led that regiment to Porto Rico in the war with Spain. Colonel

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Bemiitt married Annie E. Reed, a daughter of Samuel B. Reed,
a distinguished civil engineer and railroad builder, who was chief
engineer in the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. They
have two children, Mrs. Elbert Bates and Fred Dwight Bennitt.

Mark Bennitt, second son of Benjamin and Melinda Bennitt,
is also a resident of Joliet. He formerly was engaged in news-
paper work in Elmira and Buffalo, New York. He organized the
General Press Bureaus of the Pan American and Louisiana Pur-
chase Expositions and managed them during the exposition periods.
He was editor in chief of a comprehensive history of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition. He is now associated with large organiza-
tions in the colonization of western irrigated lands. He married
Helen Tallett at Elmira, New York, in 1890 and they have two
children, Dorman Tallett and Katharine Esther Bennitt.

Mrs. Melinda Bennitt is a communicant of the Protestant
Episcopal church and an active Daughter of the American Revolu-
tion. She is well known for her literary taste and writings for the
county press. In 1873 she joined with Mrs. E. B. Fairehild in
establishing the Hammondsport Herald and continued as its editor
for some time. She has long been active in the cause of education
and was for twelve years a member of the Board of Education of
Hammondsport.

John Ransom Sheldon certainly deserves representation
among the men who have been instrumental in promoting the wel-
fare of Hornell. He has done much to advance the wheels of
progress, aiding materially in the development of business activ-
ity and energy, on which the prosperity and growth of the state
always depend. He has found in each transition stage opportunity
for further effort and broader labor and his enterprise has not
only contributed to his individual success but has also been of
marked value to the community in which he makes his home. Since
1898 Mr. Sheldon has lived retired from the cares of active busi-
ness affiairs. For more than two-score years he was actively en-
gaged in the hardware business at Hornell, where he is now en-
joying a well deserved leisure, his home being at No. 56 Maple
street.

Mr. Sheldon was born in Hornellsville, Steuben county, New
York, July 6, 1833, a son of Orson Sheldon, the family being of
substantial New England ancestry. His grandfather, John
Sheldon, a native of Connecticut, followed the march of civiliza-
tion westward when young, settling in the vicinity of Lebanon,
Madison county. New York, in the pioneer days, and directing his
attention to agricultural pursuits. Orson Sheldon was born, in
1807, in Lebanon, New York, where he grew to adult age. From
1832 until 1836 he resided in Steuben county and thereaftei- for
two years was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Alfred, Allegany
county. New York. Returning, in 1838, to his native county, he
was in business in Lebanon for some time. In 1851 he established

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his home in Hornellsvilie, Steubeu county, and was here a resi-
dent until his death, in IbTO, a part of the time being in business
as a dry-goods merchant. His wile, whose maiden name was Jane
Jti'. llartshorn, was born, in 1811, in Lebanon, Madison county, and
she was summoned to the life eternal in 1892. Her father, Jacob
llartshorn, a native of Connecticut, was of English lineage and
was one of the pioneer settlers of Aladison county. New York. Mr.
and Mrs. Orson Sheldon became the parents of two children and of
the number John llausom, the oldest member of the parental house-
hold, and Frederick M., of Buffalo, New York, the youngest in or-
der of birth, are now living.

Until attaining his majority John R. Sheldon remained at
home, assisting .his father in the store and attending the public
schools of Lebanon. When ready to assume the real responsibilities
of life he decided upon the hardware busines as a good field for
operation and accordingly established himself in business as a
hardware merchant at Hornell, in 1858. The firm of Sheldon
Brothers, retail and wholesale dealers in hardware, was formed and
rapidly built- up a large and representative patronage, it having
an extended trade in this section of the state, and maintaining
a number of traveling salesmen on the road. For fully forty years,
from 1858 to 1898, was Mr. Sheldon identified with this line of
enterprise and with other important financial ventures in Hornell.
in the latter year, however, he withdrew from active participa-
tion in the affairs of the business world and he has since lived in
retirement, in the full enjoyment of former years of earnest toil
and endeavor. He has maintained his home in this city for a
period of sixty years and is one of the oldest residents in the
place. When he first came here, in 1851, Hornellsvilie was a town
of seven hundred inhabitants and it now boasts a population of
fourteen thousand. A sound advocate of the principles of the
Republican party Mr. Sheldon has been most active in public af-
fairs and served for a number of years as a member of the board of
trustees of the village. He is widely known throughout the coun-
try and holds a distinctively high place in the confidence and re-
gard of his fellow men.

Mr. Sheldon has been twice married, his first union, in 1862,
being to Miss Lydia P Canfield, a native of Elmira, New York.
She passed to eternal rest in 1905 and is survived by two chil-
dren,— William C, who died May 18, 1882, and Mary J., who is
now wife of R^v. Thomas Stephenson, residing in Hornell, New
York. In 1907 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sheldon to
l\liss Agnes A. Doyle, of Syracuse, New York. Mr. Sheldon is a
devout and active member of the Baptist church, as was also his
first, wife. He affiliated with this church in 1858 and he has since
been a most worthy member and a trustee. For three-score years
has Mr. Sheldon been connected with the upbuilding of Hornell
and he has just reason to be proud of the fact that to his efforts
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tributing greatly to the growth and prosperity of this section of
the state. In every sense of the word he is a representative citizen,
whose loyalty and public-spirit have been of the most prominent
order. It is to the inherent force of character and commendable
ambition and the unremitting diligence of Mr. Sheldon himself
that he steadily advanced in the business world until he eventually
occupied a leading place among the active and representative
men of Hornell.

George 'Wollage Pratt.— Among the prominent citizens
whom Corning has been called upon to mourn within the past few
years none will be more generally missed than the late George
Wollage Pratt, whose death, which occurred at his home, No. 138
Cedar street, at a quarter after two o'clock, Wednesday morning,
October 3, 1906, was a cause of deep regret not only to his im-
mediate family and friends but to the public. Taken desperately
ill the preceding May, his death was almost momentarily expected
for ten days, but his strong vitality conquered and in a few weeks
he was able to sit up a while each day. With increasing strength
his desire to once more look after his personal interests caused
him to be wheeled to the Corning Journal office, where the greater
portion of his business career had been spent, his last visit to the
editorial sanctum having been made on September 27. On Sep-
tember 30, after retiring for the night, he was seized with an at-
tack of acute indigestion, and, unable to recover from the effects
of the great suffering and the ensuing prostration he quietly passed
to rest in the home in which he had resided since 1860.

'Sh-. Pratt was born April 17, 1821, at May's Mills, midway
between Penn Yan and Dresden, in the town of Milo, then Ontario
but now Yates county, New York, a son of Joel B. Pratt. Joel
B. Pratt was born in 1795 in Colchester, Connecticut, and in
1819 became a resident of what is now Yates county, New York.
In June, 1834, Joel B. Pratt came with his family to Steuben
county, locating in the old town of Painted Post, now known as
Corning, and for a number of years had a carding and cloth-dress-
ing shop at the Mills, in what is now Hammond street, in the first
ward of the city of Corning. A man of much intelligence and of
strong convictions, he was an earnest advocate of total abstin-
ence and one of the few stanch and fearless anti-slavery men of his
day to be found in this section of the Empire state. He married
Cerinthia Wollage, who died October 10, 1867, in Binghamton,
New York, aged seventy-three years. He survived her, passing
away in Corning, New York, February 21, 1869.

Prior to coming, on June 20, 1834, with his parents to Corning,
George W. Pratt attended school at Dresden, and at Avon, New
York. He subsequently worked in his father's carding shop, as
chance offered attending the local schools and finally becoming
a district school teacher. Entering the Geneva Medical College, at
Geneva, New York, in 1842, he was there graduated with the degree

706 HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY

of M. D. in January, 1845, and the ensuing four years was en-
gaged in the practice of his profession at Corning. Going to
Michigan in September, 1849, Dr. Pratt continued to practice medi-
cine, and in addition embarked in journalistic work, being from
February, 1850, until May, 1851, editor of the Statesman, an
influential Whig paper at Marshall, Michigan. Returning to Corn-
ing, he became, in July, 1851, editor and part owner of the Corn-
ing Journal, which had been in existence at that time for four
years. In April, 1853, he purchased his partner's interest in the
paper, and, with the exception of a brief period when he had a
partner, he owned and edited the Corning Journal until his
death. In September, 1891, at the age of three score and ten years,
he established an afternoon edition of the Journal, and in 1905
the Weekly Journal was merged with the Daily Journal, to save
the labor and expense of two newspapers.

In early life Mr. Pratt was a strong anti-slavery man and a
stanch adherent of the Whig party, in 1854 joining the ranks of
the Republican organization. He was one of two delegates elected
from this assembly district of Steuben county to the first Repub-
lican state convention held in the state of New York, in Syracuse
in 1855, and was one of the eight vice-presidents of that conven-
tion. He was afterwards many times a delegate to state conven-
tions, being prominent in party affairs. In 1861 Mr. Pratt was
appointed a state canal coUecter at Corning, a position which he
held a number of years. He was appointed in 1872 by President
Grant postmaster at Corning, and held the office four years. Be-
ing appointed to the same position in 1890 by President Harrison,
he served another four years. In 1887, without his previous knowl-
edge, Mr. Pratt was appointed by Governor Hill as a member of
the first board of managers of a projected state hospital for the
insane to be located at Ogdensburg. During the four years that
he remained on that board a fine hospital was erected at a large
cost.

A man of deep religious convictions, he united with the Pres-
byterian church in early life and was ever afterwards an ardent
worker, for many years being a Sunday-school and Bible class
teacher. Mr. Pratt was a charter member of the New York State
Press Association, which was organized in 1853. He was for over
fifty years a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of
Masons, and was a life member of the Masonic organizations of
Corning.

Mr. Pratt married, September 19, 1846, Helen Melvina Hayt,
of Patterson, Putnam county, New York. She died April 4, 1880,
at the comparatively early age of fifty -five years. Of the six
children born of their union, three have passed to the life beyond,
as follows: Theodore Steele, died aged twenty-one years, Feb-
ruary 3, 1872, at Riverside, California, where the previous year
he had embarked in business as an orange grower; Sophie Steele,
the youngest child, 'died November 27, 1889, in Corning, aged

HISTORY OF STEUBEiSr COUNTY 707

twenty-three years; Claudius B., the first-born, died May 30, 1850,
aged two years. The three children living are George E., of Berke-
ley, California, third vice-president of The Realty Syndicate, one
of the largest corporations on the Pacific Coast, with offices in Oak-
land, California; Ransom, of Berkeley, California, secretary and
manager of the San Francisco office of the Bausch & Lomb Optical
Company; and Harry Hayt, for many years associated with his
father in the management of the Corning Journal, of which he is
now the editor. Harry Hayt Pratt is also postmaster of Corning.
George W. Pratt was for more than fifty-five years the editor
of the Corning Journal. He had a high sense of the dignity and
power of journalism. His convictions of right were positive ; his
sense of justice was keen. A writer of unusual force and ability
he was fearless in the expression of his views and took rank during
his long editorial career as one of the strongest individuals on the
"country press" of New York state. In private life he was kindly,
helpful, generous and broad-minded. He was a man of unblemished
integrity and his influence was constantly exerted for the right.
He ever sought to be useful, and when he died it was recognized
that one of the ablest journalists and one of the best of men had
gone hence.

Harry H. Pratt. — A man of energy and enterprise, brainy
and bright, Harry H. Pratt, editor of the Corning Daily Journal
and Coming's postmaster, has achieved a large measure of success
in his newspaper work, and as a public official, a man and a citizen
is influential and popular. He was born in this city jSTovember 11,
1864, youngest son of the late George W. Pratt, of whom a brief
personal history may be found on another page of this volume.

Brought up in Corning, Harry H. Pratt was graduated from
the Free Academy with the class of 1882, and immediately entered
the office of the Corning Journal, then a weekly paper of which his
father was the proprietor. This paper was established in 1847 and
six years later became the property of George W. Pratt, who had
previously had an interest in it for two years, and who, in Septem-
ber, 1891, began its daily issue. On the death of the proprietor, in
October, 1906, the paper passed into the hands of a corporation,
and Harry H. Pratt was made president of the company and its
editorial manager. Full of personal resources and of undoubted
ability, he is enthusiastic in his work, the Journal, which is an in-
fluential daily, bearing the marks of his individuality. In 1905 Mr.
Pratt was appointed postmaster at Corning by President Roosevelt,
and in December, 1909, was reappointed to the same position by
President Taft.

Active in public affairs, Mr. Pratt was for five years a member
of the Corning Board of Health. He is prominent in Republican
ranks, having rendered his party effective service with his pen and
as a delegate to district, state, congressional and senatorial conven-
tions. Fraternally he has taken the thirty-second degree of ilasonry

708 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY

and for one term was worshipful master of Painted Post Lodge No-
] 17, Free and Accepted .Masons. For two terms he was exalted ruler
in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

On September 14, 1892, Mr. Pratt was united in marriage with
Clarissa Chapman Spencer, a daughter of Hon. George T. Spencer,
a prominent citizen of Steuben county, and to them six children
have been born, namely: Sophie and George Wollage (twins), Hugh
Spencer, Harriet Stacy, Ransom and Helen Hayt Pratt.

James S. Harrison.— A prominent banker and manufacturer
of Steuben county. New York, and a citizen whose loyalty and
public spirit have done much to advance the progress and develop-
ment of Addison is Hon. James S. Harrison. He was born in
Woodhull township, this county, on the 15th of February, 1851,
his ancestry being of English extraction. His grandfather was
long a practicing physican and surgeon in Otsego county, where
he resided for a number of years and where his death occurred at
an advanced age. James S. is a son of Salmon Harrison, a native
of Laurens, Otsego county, whence he removed to Steuben county,
settling in Woodhull township, when about thirty-five years of
age. He married Miss Amy E. Haight, also of Otsego county, and
they became the parents of four children : Charles S. is a resident
of Flint, Michigan ; L. Adelia is deceased ; Howard B. maintains his
home in Albany, New York ; and James S. is the immediate subject
of this review. Salmon Harrison was identified with agricultural
pursuits during the major portion of his active business career and
he was an influential citizen, filling many important offices of pub-
lic trust in the community in which he elected to maintain his
home. At the time of the organization of the Republican party,
in 1858, he became aligned as a stanch supporter of its principles
and policies and he ever contributed in generous measure to all
matters projected for the general welfare of the community. For
about twelve years he was the efficient incumbent of the office of
justice of the peace and for a time he was tax assessor of Wood-
hull township. His religious faith was in harmony with the tenets
of the Baptist church, in the various departments of whose work
he was an active factor. He was summoned to the life eternal at the
age of eighty-four years and his cherished and devoted wife was
eighty-two years of age at the time of her demise.

Hon. James S. Harrison was reared to maturity on the old
home farm, in the work and management of which he early became
associated with his father, and his rudimentary education con-
sisted of such advantages as were afforded in the district schools
of his native township. Later he attended Alfred University, at
Alfred, Allegany county, New York, being enrolled as a student in
that institution for two years, at the expiration of which he turned
his attention to business affairs. In 1870 he made his advent in
Addison, where he began the manufacture of agricultural wood
work, continuing in this line of enterprise to the present time and

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HISTORY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 711

developing it till he now gives constant employment to about fifteen
skilled workmen. In 1902 he became extensively interested in
banking pursuits and in that year was elected president of the
First National Bank of Addison, being incumbent of this respons-
ible office at the present time, in 1910. This substantial financial
institution has a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars and a sur-
plus of fifty thousand dollars. Its official corps consists of Mr.
Harrison, president, as already noted, E. M. Welles, vice-president;
and W. A. Cronk, cashier. Besides the ones mentioned Mr. Har-
rison has other important interests in and adjacent to Addison and
he is considered one of the ablest and most honorable business men
in the county. His helpfulness to all measures for the public good
is proverbial. In politics he accords a stanch allegiance to the Ee-
publican party and in the session of 1905-6 he represented his
assembly district in the state legislature, where he was a member of
various important committees and took part in the deliberations
of the floor of the house, well demonstrating his ability and political
integrity. He has filled the office of supervisor of his township and
in different ways has had much to do with the public affairs of
Addison and of the county. He and his wife are devout members
of the Presbyterian church and he is affiliated with various frater-
nal and social organizations of representative character.

In the year 1883 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Harri-
son to ]\Iiss Carrie E. Griswold, a daughter of Linus Griswold, a
representative citizen of Addison. They have two children : How-
ard G., born in 1884, was graduated in Cornell University as a
member of the class of 1907, with the degree of Civil Engineer;
and Celestia G., born in 1889, remains at the parental home. The
Harrison family is one of prominence in Addison and their spa-
cious and attractive home is a recognized center of gracious hos-
pitality and refinement.

George S. Gofp, il. D., manager of the Crystal City Gas
Company, Corning, New York, has been a resident of Corning
since 1894 and has lived in Steuben county all his life. He was
born at Cameron Mills, this county, December 7, 1853, son of Finla
Goff. He received his early education in the schools of his native
town, and upon reaching manhood decided to prepare himself for
the practice of medicine. Accordingly, in the fall of 1875, he en-
tered the medical department of the University of New York and
graduated there in the spring of 1877. Immediately after his
graduation he opened an office in Tollsville, New York, where, how-
ever, he remained only a few months. Returning to Cameron
Mills he established himself in practice among the people who had
known him from childhood, and there for a period of seventeen
years he successfully conducted the practice of medicine. In 1894
Doctor Goff moved to Corning. Here he continued his practice
for a time, but of recent years has abandoned it. From time to
time he has made profitable investments. He was the promoter of

713 HISTORY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY

the Crystal City Gas Company, in which he is a heavy stockholder,
and for the past five years has been general manager of the com-
pany.

Dr. Goff has been twice married. His first wife, Lucinda
(Northrop) Goff, was bom March 12, 1852, and died December 7,
1890. By her he had three children: Mrs. Josephine Almy, a
resident of Oklahoma; Raymond F. Goff, of Oklahoma City, Okla-
homa ; and George Victor Goff, of Clean, New York. For his sec-
ond wife, on October 25, 1891, he married Miss Claribel Alexander,
who was bom March 7, 1875. The only child of this union is M.
Winifred, who lives at home.

Dr. Goff has membership in the Steuben County and the New
York State Medical Associations, and also is a member of the City
Club of Corning. Politically he is a Republican. He served eight
years as health officer and nine years as coroner. He and his fam-
ily are worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

S. GiLMOEE Haight.— A native son of Steuben county who has
attained success and prestige as one of its representative business
men is Samuel Gilmore Haight, who is engaged in the drug busi-
ness at Hammondsport, where he is also operator for the Western
Union Telegraph Company and incumbent of the office of township
clerk. He was born in Urbana township, this county, on the 27th of
January, 1873, and is a son of Samuel Charles and Mary E. (Gil-
more) Haight, the former of whom was born in Dutchess county,
New York, and the latter in Urbana township, Steuben county, be-
ing a daughter of Richard and Martha (Osborn) Gilmore. Samuel C.
Haight became one of the representative farmers of Urbana town-
ship, where he continued to reside until 1885, when he removed to
the village of Hammondsport, where he lived retired until his death,
which occurred on the 25th of April, 1909, at which time he was
seventy years of age. He was a lad of fourteen years at the time
of his parents' removal from Dutchess county to Steuben county
and he was a son of David W. and Sarah (Tompkins) Haight. His
father became a prosperous farmer in Urbana township and there
continued to reside until his death, as did also his wife. Mrs.
Mary E. (Gilmore) Haight now resides in Hammondsport in the
home of her son, S. Gilmore, the subject of this review, and she
has attained to the venerable age of seventy-four years. Samuel
C. Haight served two years as a loyal soldier of the Union during
the Civil war and while in service he was struck by lightning,
though the injury did not prove fatal. He was commissioned cap-
tain of his company but the result of his injuries from the stroke
of lightning compelled him to resign his commission. He was a
member of Company E, First New York Artillery. He was a Re-
publican. His daughter, Nancy E., is the wife of M. A. Hoyt,
of Hammondsport, and her sister, Mary, is the wife of Rev.
John Hickok, who is a clergyman of the Methodist church ; he now
has pastoral charge of the church at Ashville, Chautauqua county.

HISTORY OP STEUBEX COUA'TY 713

S. Gilmore Haigiit gained his early educational training in
the public schools of Steuben county and as a youth he learned the
art of telegraphy. When eighteen years of age he became identi-
fied with railroad interests at telegraph operator at Rheims, Steu-
ben county, where he also served as station agent for two years.
He then came to Hammondsport as telegraph operator and station
agent and here he served in this dual capacity for four years, at the
expiration of which he entered the service of the Great Northern
railway, near Spokane, Washington. He remained in the west one
year and he then returned to Steuben county, where he had charge
of his father's farm for the succeeding year. Since that time he
has been engaged in the drug business in Hammondsport with his
brother-in-law, Maurice A. Hoyt, and who controlled a substantial
and representative enterprise in this line. Mr. Haight is also
serving as operator for the Western Union Telegraph Company at
Hammondsport and he has been incumbent of the office of clerk
of Hammondsport township, having been elected on the ticket of
the Democratic party, of whose principles and policies he is a
stanch advocate. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and
the Improved Order of Redmen. He takes a lively interest in all
that touches the welfare of his home city and county and is essen-
tially progressive and public-spirited.

In the year 1902 Mr. Haight was united in marriage to Miss
Jennie Relyea, who was born and reared in Steuben county and
who is a daughter of Frank Relyea, who is now engineer of the
city water works of Elmira, New York. Mrs. Haight as graduated
in the high school at Prattsburg, later attended Franklin Acad-
emy and finally was graduated in the state normal school at Gene-
seo. Prior to her marriage she was a successful and popular
teacher in the public schools for several terms. Mr. and Mrs.
Haight have no children.

Herbert A. Heminway.— One of the best known and most
successful attorneys that ever graced the Steuben county bar is
Herbert A. Heminway, of Corning, who has the rare logical faculty
of applying the standard principles of law with wonderful power
to the cases he may have in hand, never being led astray from the
point at issue. A son of the late Allen Heminway, he was born
August 25, 1875, in Nunda, Livingston county. New York, being
the third child in a family of four children that grew to years of
maturity.

Allen Heminway was born and brought up in New York state
and during his active career was variously employed. He lived in
different places, spending his last years in Pownal, Vermont, where
he passed away at the age of seventy-two years. He married Caro-
line D. Underwood, who was born three score and ten years ago,
and is now living in Pownal, Vermont.

Spending the days of his boyhood in Bennington county, Ver-
mont, Herbert A. Heminway was graduated from the Bennington

714 [IISTOKV OF STEUBEX COUNTY

High School in 1895, and subsequently attended the Boys' High
School in New York city. Entering then Cornell University he
was graduated from the law department with the class of 1900,
and the same year located in Corning. As a general practitioner
he has been exceedingly fortunate, his breadth of wisdom and
fertility of resource winning him a noteworthy position among the
lawyers of prominence and eminence. He is now attorney for the
towns of Erwin and Hornby, and as a leading member of the Re-
publican party he takes an active interest in public affairs. Fra-
ternally Mr. Heminway is a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging
to the lodge, chapter, council and consistory; is also a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and belongs to Corning
Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. 0. E.

Mr. Heminway married, June 25, 1902, Ella May Daley, a
daughter of John P. and Jane Dalej'^, of Bennington, Vermont,
and of their union two children have been born, Caroline Ella and
Marion Louise.

Dr. Philo L. Alden was born in the town of Howard, Steu-
ben county. New York, August 27, 1856. His father, George V.
Alden, was born May 17, 1824, and died in 1887, aged sixty-three
years. He was a native of Yates county and came to Howard
with his father in 1830. He became a millwright, a lumberman
and a civil engineer and did much work as a draftsman. He died
in Howard, after a life of activity and usefulness. He took little
practical interest in politics, but was well known as a Mason. He
married Ann C. Chapman in 1847. She was born in Moskow, New
York, in 1825, a daughter of James and Lavinia (Utter) Chap-
man. Dr. Alden had the following brothers and sisters : Josie
died at the age of two; George died at the age of fifty years;
Frank died at the age of sixty years; Henry D. died in infancy;
Charles is a machinist at Warren, Ohio; Emma is the wife of
Charles Hubbell, of Union City, Pennsylvania; Omar resides at
Warren, Ohio. The subject's grandfather on the paternal side was
Barney Alden, a cabinetmaker, carpenter and builder, who with
his brother erected the two churches in Howard. He died August
2, 1871. His wife, who was Nancy Devoe, was born September 11,
1800, and died November 9, 1876. Manoah Alden, father of Bar-
ney Alden and great-grandfather of Dr. Alden, settled in Steuben
county in 1776 and made a success as a pioneer undertaker and
cabinetmaker. His wife lived to be one hundred and three years
old. Dr. Alden of this review has a history of John and Priscilla
Alden family of the Pilgrims down to 1865, and which includes
his grandparents, thus making the Doctor a direct descendant of
this historic family.

Dr. Alden completed the course of the public school, was
then graduated from the high school and later attended Alfred
University at Alfred, Allegany county, New York. From 1878 to
1883 he was a salesman at Buffalo, New York. Then, at Pulteney,

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUXTY 717

he began the study of medicine, and in 1887 was graduated from
the medical department of the University of Buffalo. He began
his professional work in Wayne, remaining there until 1889, when
he located at Hammondsport, where he has won high rank both
as physician and surgeon. He spent the season of 1905 abroad to
better prepare himself for his practice and in England he visited
many Alden families, notably in Oxford, the home of the Aldens.
He is a member of the Lake Keuka Medical Association and has
been for twenty years a member of the Steuben County Medical
Association. He is a member of the New York State Sanitary
Officers' Association, also president of the Hammondsport Busi-
ness Men's Association, Incorporated, and was appointed by
President Cleveland president of the pension board and filled the
office six years.

Dr. Alden finds time from the exacting demands of his pro-
fession to keep in touch with the progress of the times. As a
Democrat he has been active in party work and has been called to
several offices, notably to that of health officer of the town and
corporation, which he held ten years. He is a member of the
Corning lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

In 1885 he married Miss Mary Emma Nichol of Pulteney,
born November 20, 1865, a daughter of Dr. Lyman and Harriet
(Thompson) Nichol, who are living at Pulteney, aged respectively
seventy-five and seventy-four years. Dr. and Mrs. Alden have had
two children: George Lyman, born in 1887, a trained nurse and
a graduate of Portsmouth ; and Edna May, born in 1891, who died
in infancy.

There is nothing of public import at Hammondsport and in
the surrounding country in which Dr. Alden is not helpfully in-
terested. His profession has made him more observant than the
ordinary citizen in many things affecting the public health and the
physical well-being of residents in particular localities, and he is,
in truth, a model health officer. His public spirit is such that he
seldom turns a deaf ear to any proposition looking to the general
good. In all that affects Hammondsport and its people he has
keen interest and there is no local movement which in his judgment
promises to benefit any considerable number of his fellow citizens
that does not have his cordial advocacy and his generous support.

WiLLARD S. Reed.— A man of scholarly attainments, posses-
sing good business tact and judgment, Willard S. Reed is well
qualified for the responsible position he now holds as cashier of
the First National Bank of Corning. A native of Steuben county,
he was born May 1, 1871, at Hammondsport, of English ancestors.
His father, Walter Reed, was born and bred in Honesdale, Penn-
sylvania, from there coming as a young man to Steuben county.
Locating at Hammondsport, he embarked in the grape-growing
business, in which, notwithstanding his burden of eighty-two years,
he is still successfully engaged. He married Catherine Smith, who
was born eighty-two years ago in Tompkins county. New York, a

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daughter of William Smith, whose father was one of the original
settlers of Tompkins county. Of the children born of their union
five survive, namely: Lawrence F.; George W. ; Elizabeth, wife
of Theo. Bennett ; Mary, wife of Asa Robbins ; and Willard S.

After receiving his diploma at the Haverling Free Academy
in Bath with the class of 1892, Willard S. Reed studied law in the
office of Charles F. Kingsley, of Bath, and in 1896 was admitted
to the bar. Coming directly to Corning Mr. Reed was here engaged
in the practice of his profession for eleven years. Accepting the
position of cashier in the First National Bank of Corning in 1907
he has since retained it. This bank is one of the substantial in-
stitutions of Steuben county. On November 10, 1910, its liabilities
included a paid-up capital of $100,000; a surplus fund of $50,000;
undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid, of $27,956.31 ; with
individual deposits subject to check, demand certificates of deposit/
certified checks, cashier's checks outstanding and United States de-
posits, amounting to $868,225.93. Its resources at the same time,
including loans and discounts, overdrafts, bonds and premiums,
house, furniture and fixings, stocks, money due, checks, notes,
money on hand, bank reserve fund, specie, legal tender notes and
redemption fund, amounting to $1,146,140.25. The bank oflScers
are men of recognized financial ability and integrity, James A.
Drake being president; George B. Bradley, vice-president; Willard
S. Reed, cashier; and Charles M. Hyde, assistant cashier, while the
directors are James A. Drake, George B. Bradley, Willard S. Reed,
John L. Lewis, C. Glen Cole, Eran F. Williams and Charles M.
Hyde.

In his political affiliations Mr. Reed is a Democrat, and m 1897
and 1898 was city attorney, while in 1900 and 1901 he served as
city judge. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolu-
tion, and belongs to Lodge No. 1071, B. P. 0. E.

]\Ir. Reed married, July 24, 1893, Estelle Brush, a daughter
of James and Malvina Brush, and into their home two children
have been born, Walter and Charlotte.

Lee Vebne Rosenkrans, justice of the peace and dealer in
real estate, Wayland, Steuben county, New York, was born on the
old Rosenkrans homestead, September 22, 1871, a son of Hamilton
S. and Helen M. (Davis) Rosenkrans. His father died December
14, 1897, leaving a widow, three sons and two daughters as follows :
Maynard H., of Wayland, is a painter; Merton J. is in the employ
of the Standard Oil Company at Kansas City; Lee Verne of this
sketch ; Jennie J. married Bert Goodno, a farmer living in Roch-
ester, New York; Hattie J. is the wife of Hugh McKay, of Drury's
Bluff, Virginia.

Lee Verne Rosenkrans left the public school at eighteen and
took a commercial course under the preceptorship of Professor
Pangborn of Wayland. To the education thus acquired he has
added very extensively by a system of self study, and it was broad-

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUXTY 719

ened by his study of the law. The latter he carried on while he
was managing the manufactory of cider vinegar established by his
father and laying the foundation for his present fine business in
real estate.

Throughout Steuben and adjoining counties Mr. Rosenkrans
is known as a devoted and active and influential member of the
Democratic party. For a decade he has been prominent in the
public business of the town of Wayland. When he had but just
attained his majority he was honored by his fellow citizens with
the responsible post of inspector of elections, and at twenty-eight
he was elected justice of the peace, which office he has held by suc-
cessive reelections to the present time. He was a delegate to a state
senatorial convention and at numerous important conventions has
been placed on committees where the finest ability was demanded
and in the work of which he acquitted himself with the greatest
credit. It is to such men of the younger class as is Mr. Rosen-
krans that Steuben county looks for the carrying forward of the
traditions of its glorious past, and nobly are they rising to the re-
sponsibility. There is not in Wayland a man of better developed
public spirit than that always exhibited by Mr. Rosenkrans in all
his dealings with his fellow citizens. Indeed, it is not to be be-
lieved that he would refuse his generous support to any measure
which in his opinion promised to benefit the general public.

A. D. Stevens, a stockholder in and superintendent of the
Painted Post Lumber Company, was born in Avon, Livingston
county. New York, January 19, 1864, a son of Edwin and Juliette
(Deming) Stevens. His father, born in Orleans county. New
York, devoted his active life to farming and now lives in retire-
ment at Painted Post, aged about seventy-four years. His mother,
who first saw the light of day in Livingston county. New York,
lived about forty-five years, all of the time at Avon, the place of
her birth. She bore her husband children named as follows : A. D.,
the immediate subject of this notice, and John D., who is a resi-
dent of Chicago, Illinois. The former spent his boyhood days in
Livingston county and was educated in the Union school at Avon.
He began his business career in the lumber trade in his native
town, where for about three years he was employed by the firm of
Watkins & Bennett. From Avon he came to Painted Post in 1886
as foreman for the lumber firm of Stanton, Crandall & Company.
After the dissolution of that concern he was for about two years
in Mr. Stanton 's employ, and when the firm of Stanton & Brewster
was organized he passed into its service, remaining with it till he
became one of the organizers and superintendent of the Painted
Post Lumber Company, with the management of which he has been
efficiently prominent to the present time. This concern, employing
in its yards and planing mill about twenty-five men, is one of the
leading business institutions of the town.

Not alone in connection with the Painted Post Lumber Com-
pany is Mr. Stevens active in the community. With W. A. Clark

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he is concerned in real estate transactions of considerable im-
portance, they having platted and offered for sale to home builders
a two and one-half acre tract on the street car line near the center
of the village. For many years he has taken an active interest in
the affairs of Painted Post. He was village trustee four years and
then was elected a member of the village board. In 1909 and again
in 1910 he was elected to the presidency of the body just men-
tioned. Throughout the county he is known as a prominent Odd
Fellow, having been noble grand of his lodge at Painted Post,
district deputy of District No. 1, and a member of the Encamp-
ment and of the Rebekahs. As a Mason he is no less well known,
having passed from the Blue Lodge into the Royal Arch and Chap-
ter degrees. His connection with Masonry began about eighteen
years ago. He was the first noble grand in the local history of
Odd Fellowship, and was a member of the building committee that
had supervision of the erection of the Painted Post Odd Fellows'
temple. His identification with the village hook and ladder com-
pany has been long. In fact, there is no important local interest
of a public character to which he has not been helpful to the extent
of his ability. In political alliance he is Republican, doing all
that he can to advance the interests of his party in village, county,
state and nation. In 1894 Mr. Stevens married Miss Lydia Fan-
eher, daughter of Delos Fancher, of Corning, New York.

Frank H. Lawrence, M. D.. a well known and successful
physician of Kanona, New York, is a native of Steuben county,
born at Arkport, April 14, 1857, a son of Hiram and Jane (Hill)
Lawrence, natives respectively of Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
Hiram Lawrence was a farmer and upon coming to Steuben county
opened the second grocery store in Hornell, but afterward engaged
ill farming near Arkport. He was active in political affairs and
was a strong -Democrat. Besides Frank H. he and his wife had
another son, who is a farmer and lives near Arkport. Mrs. Law-
rence was a daughter of Joseph Hill. Hiram Lawrence died in
1866, at the age of fifty-two years.

After completing the course in the public schools of his locali-
ty Frank H. Lawrence attended Rogersville Seminary two years
and afterward entered a medical college of Cincinnati, Ohio, from
which he graduated in 1880, with the degree of M. D. He immedi-
ately took up his residence at Kanona for the practice of his pro-
fession and has built up a large and gratifying practice. He is
recognized as a physician of considerable sldll and readily wins
the confidence and esteem of his patients. He served seven years
as a member of the medical pension board of the county, and is
active in the medical societies of both county and state, having
belonged to both several years. In polities he is a Democrat and
interested in every movement for the progress or well-being of the
community. He served four years efficiently as postmaster of
Kanona, assuming office in 1882. Fraternally he is a member of
the Masonic lodge at Bath and of the Elks Lodge at Hornell.

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 731

Dr. Lawrence married, in 1874, Lulu Dagert, daughter of
Horace and Nancy Dagert, of Avoca, who died in 1891, at the age
of thirty-two years, leaving one child, Robert, who lives at home.
Dr. Lawrence married for his second wife Jennie Bonney, daugh-
ter of John Bonney, a carpenter living at Prattsburg. No chil-
dren have been born of this union.

Edwin Clarke English.— The name of English is well and
honorably known in Steuben county, and Edwin Clarke English,
one of Corning 's leading attorneys, is a native and a life-long lesi-
dent of this progressive portion of the Empire state. He was
born October 27, 1837, at Caton, and is the son of Amzi and Sally
(Gorton) English. On his mother's side he comes of a family
whose identification with the affairs of the American nation was
very soon after the landing of the historic Mayflower. The founder
of the family on the shores of the new world was Samuel Gorton,
who was born in 1592 at Gorton, within the limits of the city of
Manchester, England, and landed at Boston in the month of
March, 1637. He was a man prominent in the affairs of the budding
New England and one of the early founders of the colonies of
Providence and Rhode Island.

Edwin Clarke English, the son of a farmer and Methodist
Episcopal minister, passed his youth in Steuben county and re-
ceived his preliminary education in the public schools, later ma-
triculating in Alfred Academy. He devoted the gifts of an eagei'
intellect principally to the English branches and when his school
days were over devoted himself to agriculture, which for a time he
thought of adopting as a life work, but abandoned owing to his
health being impaired in the army. In the year 1874 he made a
radical step by removing from his native town of Caton to what
was then the village of Corning, and it has been his pleasure to
witness the steady growth and improvement of said village into
one of the state's most prosperous centers, at the same time assist-
ing in full measure towards this result. A long cherished desire
to become a lawyer had meantime reached fruition, his training for
the profession having been acquired in the law office of Spencer &
Mills, where he read law for three years. He was admitted to
the bar in 1877 and to full practice in 1879, and ever since that
date has practiced law here, being recognized widely as conserva-
tive, reliable and well-read, and, in short, one of the able repre-
sentatives of a high calling.

Mr. English is a veteran of the Civil war. When an answer
to the importunate inquiry, "Shall the nation liveT' could no
longer be denied, Mr. English enlisted in the Twenty -third Regi-
ment of New York Volunteer Infantry, the date of this event being
October 14, 1861. His service to the Union was of about a year's
duration for he was disabled by the breaking down of his health
and was discharged from the hospital on November 11, 1862.

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Mr. English, in testimony of the confidence in which he was
held by his fellow citizens, was made supervisor of the town of
Caton in 1873-4. Since the year 1874 he has been an active cham-
pion of the cause of the Prohibition party, and on its ticket he
was nominated for justice of the supreme court of New York state
also for attorney general. He is, indeed, one who may be depended
upon to give his heart and hand to all good causes and for forty-
six years he has been a consistent member of the Methodist Epis-
copal church.

The foundation of a pleasant life companionship was laid m
May, 1866, when Mr. English was united in marriage to Frances
P. Gulliver. They have no children. Mr. English is very promi-
nent in lodge circles and derives no small amount of pleasure from
his association with his fellow men. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason, a Knight of Honor, and belongs to several other fraternal
■organizations, in all except the Masonic order having occupied the
highest chair.

Van Buren McCorn.— Numbered among the progressive rep-
resentatives of viticulture and wine-producing in Steuben county
is Mr. McCorn, who is one of the substantial business men and
public-spirited citizens of Hammondsport and who is well en-
titled to consideration in this publication. Mr. LleCorn, whose line-
age is traced back to stanch Scotch origin, was born in Newfield
township, Tompkins county. New York, on the 1st of November,
1861, and is a son of John Wesley McCorn, who was born in
Orange county, this state, and who devoted the greater portion of
his active career to the lumber business. He died at the age of
seventy-seven years. He was a son of Moses McCorn, who was
born and reared in Scotland and who came with his family to
America on a sailing vessel, which in due time arrived in the port
of New York city. He settled in Orange county. New York, where
he engaged in agricultural pursuits, and he later removed to Tomp-
kins county, where he passed the residue of his life and where he
died at the age of eighty-eight years. John W. McCorn, father
of him whose name initiates this review, was prominently identified
with the lumbering industry in Tompkins county, where he built
the first large sawmill, from which was furnished the greater por-
tion of the lumber utilized in the erection of the earlier buildings
of Cornell University, in the city of Ithaca. He controlled six
hundred acres of timber land and was a man of much pragmatic
ability and of sterling integrity of purpose, so that he ever com-
manded the unqualified confidence and esteem of his fellow citi-
zens. He continued to reside in Tompkins county until his death.
He M'as a stanch Republican in his political proclivities, having
united with the party at the time of its organization and having
been a zealous worker in behalf of its cause. He was called upon
to serve in various local offices of trust and was progressive in his
civic attitude. Both he and his wife were devout members of the

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Presbyterian church. John W. McCorn married Miss Mary Cutter,
who was born and reared in Tompkins county, this state, and who
was a daughter of Nirum and Rebecca (Dennis) Cutter. Concern-
ing the children of John W. and Mary (Cutter) McCorn brief rec--
ord is here entered. Nirum is an expert gun-lock maker and is
employed in the Remington Gun Works, and Leroy is associated
with his brother, Van Buren, in the grape and wine busmess af
Hammondsport.

Van Buren McCorn, to whom this article is dedicated, was-
reared on the old homestead farm, to whose work he early began
to contribute his quota, and in the meantime he continued to attend •
the common schools of his native county. He was identified with
agricultural pursuits until 1890, when he came to Hammondsport,'
Steuben county, and associated himself with his brother, Leroy, in
the grape and wine business, in which their success has been of
unequivocal order. Their vineyards are in excellent condition and
produce the finest quality of grapes, from which they manufacture '
all kinds of fine dry wines. Their wine products are shipped to all •
parts of the Union and as excellent export trade is also controlled, •
the same showing a constantly cumulative tendency. On other pages'
of this work is entered a brief review of the career of Leroy Mc- •
Corn, who is senior member of the concern.

Though Mr. McCorn has never sought or desired public ofSce
he is loyal to all duties of citizenship and takes a lively interest in
local affairs. His political allegiance is given to the Republican
party and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in which he
holds membership in the lodge at Hammondsport, and the chapter
of Royal Arch Masons at Bath. Both he and his wife are members
of the Presbyterian church and are actively identified with the
various departments of its work.

In the year 1897 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McCorn
to Miss Elizabeth David, who was born near the city of Berlin,
Germany, and who was a child at the time of her parents' emigra-
tion to America. She is a daughter of Carl David and the maiden
name of her mother was Hoffman. Her father is a tanner by trade
and during his earlier years of residence in America he followed
this vocation. Both he and his wife now reside in Elmira, this
state, where he is engaged in the hide and fur business and where
he is held in high regard as a man of sterling character. Mr. and
Mrs. McCorn have one daughter Ruth, who was born in 1899. Mrs.
McCorn has one sister and one brother, and the latter is a pros-
perous merchant in the city of Elmira ; he served during the Span-
ish-American war and later was with the United States troops in
China at the time of the Boxer uprising.

Thomas F. Rogers.— Ranking high among the ablest lawyers
of Steuben county is Thomas F. Rogers, of Corning, who has met
with distinguished success in the practice of his profession, to which
he is devoted. Thorough and methodical in the preparation of his
cases and skilled and judicious in their management, he is. always

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true to his client, to the court and to himself in the conduct of the
numerous criminal cases with which he has been associated, having
successfully won the attention of the court, the jury and the bar,
and almost invariably gained his case. A native of Pennsylvania,
he was born June 26, 1879, in Wellsboro, Tioga county, of Irish
ancestry.

Edward Rogers, his father, was born and educated in Ireland.
In early manhood, about 1850, he emigrated to the United States,
Jocating at Cooperstown, where he followed his trade of a tanner
for a few years. Subsequently removing to "Wellsboro, Pennsyl-
vania, he was there assistant superintendent or foreman in a tan-
nery for a long time. In 1896 he settled in Corning, New York,
and has since been here a resident. He married m Elmira, New
York, Margaret CuUinan, who was born in Ireland and came with
her parents to Elmira, New York, in 1855. Of the children born
of their union nine grew to years of maturity, namely : James, who
died in Corning in 1906 ; Mary, who married Patrick McManus, of
Rochester, died in 1897, leaving two children: Daniel C, of Corn-
ing, an engineer on the New York Central Railway, who mar-
ried Elizabeth Haischer and lives in Corning ; Edward R., of New
York city, in the employ of the New York Central Railway Com-
pany as yard superintendent of engines; Ella M. is the wife of
Thomas J. Curtin, clerk at the St. James Hotel in Corning; Rose
M. is the wife of Dr. J. L. Ronan, of Corning; Emma C. is living
with her parents; John J., of Corning, is the proprietor of St.
James Hotel; and Thomas P.

Obtaining his first knowledge of books as a boy in Wellsboro,
Thomas F. Rogers continued his studies in the public schools of
Corning, subsequently attending the Niagara University. He then
entered the law department of Columbia University, from which
he was graduated with the class of 1901. Coming immediately to
Steuben county, Mr. Rogers opened a law office in Addison, from
there coming in a short time to Coming, for three years thereafter
being junior member of the law firm of Sebring, Cheney & Rogers.
He was afterwards engaged in the practice of his profession alone
until February, 1909, when he formed a partnership with W. W.
Willard, the firm name having since been "VVillard & Rogers. Mr.
Rogers is especially well known as a criminal lawyer of ability,
being thoroughly informed on that special branch of law, in the
fourteen homicide cases in which he has been retained as counsel
having won his cause.

Mr. Rogers possesses excellent business judgment and has large
financial interests, being president of the Corning Motor Car Com-
pany and also president of the Wright Motor Car Company of
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a part owner of the St. James Hotel,
and a stockholder in the National Hotel and in the Haischer Brew-
ing Company of Corning. Politically he is actively identified with
the Democratic party, snd has served his fellow citizens as city
recorder. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Columbus,

HISTORY OF STKUBKX. COUXTY 725

which he served as grand knight two terms, and oE the Corniug
Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. 0. E. Mr. Rogers has never inarried, his
business, mayhap, claiming his attention in the exclusion of matri-
monial affairs.

Harry M. Benner, artist and photographer, Hammondsport,
Steuben county, New York, was born May 10, 1875, A son of Wil-
liam Benner, from Tralee, Ireland, who came when young with his
parents to Hammondsport, and is now living there in retirement
from active life. He was fifteen when they came in 1855, and he
is seventy now. His father, Timothy Benner, had come a little
earlier and sent -back for his household. He was a wagonmaker
by trade. Many of the wagons and buggies used by the farmers
and lumbermen of a bygone generation were of his handiwork.
It was but natural that his son William should have taken to some
branch of his industry. Colors appealed to him and he became an
expert carriage painter and worked at his trade till 1895, when
he retired. He is a Republican and a man of influence in his
party, but has never wanted office for himself. He married Cath-
arine Damoth, a native of the town of Bradford and a daughter
of Dennis Damoth. She died in 1899, aged fifty years. They had
two children, the immediate subject of this sketch, and a daughter,
May Benner, employed in a manufacturing concern and a member
of her father's household.

After leaving school Harry M. Benner was employed at Ham-
mondsport five years as a laborer and later he was in the laundrj'
business for a time at Newton, New Jersey, and at Buffalo, New
York. He had early developed an interest in photography and
had come to be quite proficient in all branches of the art. In
1903 he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as photographer for an
electric railway company, and in that position gained further val-
uable experience. In 1906 he returned to his old home and en-
gaged in photography and grape-growing and is achieving a satis-
factory business success.

Mr. Benner is a Democrat, alive to all local and national is-
sues, but too busy to be a politician for the sake of office. He is
a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church and a member
of the order of Modern Woodmen of America. In August, 1899,
he married Grace H. Culver, born at Seneca, New York, in 1878,
daughter of John and Mary (Cummings) Culver. Mrs. Benner
bore her husband a daughter, Myrtle K. Benner, now seven years
old. After leaving school Mrs. Benner was a clerk in a mercantile
establishment till marriage. She died June 14, 1910, after a year's
illness, and is mourned as a devoted wife and mother. She was a
member of the Protestant Episcopal church of Hammondsport.
She left, besides her husband and their child, brothers named Fred.
Frank and James Culver. The latter married Miss J. Baker, of
Geneva, New York.

726 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COT'XTY

Joseph Franklin Brown, a farmer of Wheeler township,
Steuben county, New York, was born September 13, 1839, in the
log cabin on his father's farm near Mitchellville, this county. His
father, John Brown, son of Jacob Brown, came from Orange coun-
ty, New Jersey, to this place in 1826, and settled on a tract of
fifty acres, which he cleared and improved. In connection with
his farming here in the early days he taught school and also
worked at the trade of chairmaker. A stanch Methodist, he was
for years an active worker in the church. He died in 1877, at the
age of seventy-nine years ; his widow survived him until 1884, when
her death occurred at the age of eighty-one. She was before mar-
riage Miss Ann Thresher, daughter of Asol and Eva (Churchill)
Thresher. Of their children three are now living, the subject of
this sketch and a widowed sister, and brother, the latter a veteran
of the Civil war and a Methodist minister.

Joseph F. Brown was reared at the old home place and edu-
cated in the school near by, chiefly under his father's instructions,
and remained with his parents and cared for them while they lived.
Farming has been his life-long occupation.

He married Miss Sarah J. Garnell, who was born February 1,
1841, daughter of William and Amy (Somer) Garnell, and one
of threft children. They came to New York from New Jersey, ilr.
and Mrs. Brown have three children: William G., who married
Miss Mary Townsend; Elizabeth N., a stenographer at the Soldiers'
Home; and Jenny M., wife of G. Depew, a farmer of Steuben
county.

Mr. Brown and his wife, like the other members of his family,
are identified with the Methodist church and are active church
workers, Mrs. Brown being president of the Ladies' Society. Mr.
Brown's connection with the Methodist church at Mitchellville
dates back to its organization, his name being among its charter
members. For some years this church was on a circuit, and the
circuit rider held services here only once in four weeks. The
circuit riders and the subsequent pastors have always found a
cordial welcome at Mr. Brown's, and his support has always been
a substantial aid to the church. Politically Mr. Brown has always
been a Republican, having east his first vote for Abraham Lincoln
for president.

Colonel Parnach D. Haradon. — The substantial' and well-to-
do citizens of Corning, Steuben county, have no more worthy rep-
resentative that Colonel Parnach D. Haradon, who has here been
prosperously engaged in the real estate and loan business for fully
twenty-five years, at the present time, in 1910, being at the head
of the enterprising and well-known firm of Haradon & Pease. A
native of this county, he was born June 17, 1828, in Hornby, where
his father, the late Parnach Haradon, was a pioneer settler.

Of English descent, Parnach Haradon was born in Massa-
chusetts during the closing years of the eighteenth century, and
was there brought up and educated. He served as a soldier in the

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war of 1812, after which he migrated to the state of New York,
settling in Steuben county in pioneer days. A carpenter by occu-
pation, he did much of the building done in this part of the coun-
try in early times, and was also engaged to some extent in agri-
cultural pursuits, clearing and improving a good farm. He was
active in public affairs, for over a score of years rendering ex-
cellent service as a justice of the peace. He attained the venerable
age of eighty-seven years, dying an honored and respected man.
He was for a number of years a captain in the State Militia. He
married Delena Clark, who was born in Massachusetts, but was
reared and educated in Hornby, New York, whither her parents
settled when she was about two years of age. Six children were
born of their union, five sons and one daughter, all of whom grew
to years of maturity, Parnach D. being the third child in succes-
sion of birth.

Leaving Hornby, his native town, in 1853, Parnach D. Hara-
don followed the trend of civilization westward to Illinois, locat-
ing in Dixon, Lee county, where he embarked in the real estate
business. Subsequently buying three acres of land he laid it out
in town lots and erected about thirty houses, which he sold at an
advantage. During the progress of the Civil war he enlisted in
Company D, Fifteenth Illinois Infantry, and served in 1863 and
1864 in Arkansas with the Illinois Militia. He was subsequently
transferred to the quartermaster's department, in which he served
with the rank of captain until the close of the war.

Returning then to Steuben county, Mr. Haradon established
himself as a contractor and builder in Corning, and while follow-
ing his trade erected a number of buildings, including two brick
blocks on Market street and several fine buildings on Bridge and
Hugel streets, for fifteen years being a leader in his line of in-
dustry. He subsequently established the first real estate office
opened in Corning, and has since been successfully engaged in the
real estate and loan business, for several years being a member
of the firm of Haradon & Nichols. After the death of Mr. Nichols
he continued alone for a time, and then formed a partnership with
Frank L. Pease, under its present firm name of Haradon & Pease,
and has since carried on au extensive and profitable business,
with offices at No. 110 Bridge street.

Politically Mr. Haradon is a stanch and loyal citizen, and for
twelve years served faithfully as assessor of Coming, his election
having been brought about through the combined efforts of the
leading members of all parties, these loyal citizens appreciating the
high principles and sterling characteristics that distinguished Mr.
Haradon above the typical officeseeker. Oh retiring from the as-
sessorship Mr. Haradon thought to give up all offices of a public
nature, but his fellow citizens without solicitation on his part urged
him to become the nominee for the position of supervisor, and his
name was placed upon the Democratic ticket to represent the Third
district on the county board of supervisors.

730 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY

One of the more prominent members of the J. B. Rathburn
Post, No. 277, G. A. R., of Coming, he has served as its commander
at different periods for seven years, and it was largely through his
activity that the J. B. Rathburn Women's Relief Corps was estab-
lished. He has been present at many state and national gatherings
of the Grand Army of the Republic, often in an official capacity,
having served as aide-de-camp on General Sherman's staff at Chi-
cago, holding the rank of colonel; with General Burton at the
National Encampment; and on the staff of General Tanner at
Minneapolis.

Mr. Haradon married, May 7, 1855, Augusta Wheat, who was
born in Steuben county, New York, and prior to her marriage
taught school several terms. Five children have been born to Mr.
and Mrs. Haradon, namely: George, who has been a mail carrier
in Corning for twenty years ; Charles, deceased ; William, living at
home; Frederick, of Corning; and Frank, deceased.

George Rltjolph, farmer, lumberman and man of business,
was born in Westphalen, Germany, April 2, 1887, a son of Fred-
erick and Martha (Miller) Rudolph. The elder Rudolph came to
America with his family in 1894, and settled at Germania, Penn-
sylvania, where he lumbered successfully till February 12, 1908,
when he was killed in trailing logs, aged forty-five years. He was
a progressive man, a friend to public education and a member of
the German Lutheran church and of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. Martha Miller, who became his wife, was a daughter
of Conrad and Catharine Miller. For information concerning
her family the reader is referred to a sketch of H. Miller,
which appears in this work. George Rudolph has three brothers
and one sister living : William Rudolph of Hammondsport ; Charles
of Galeton, Pennsylvania ; Walter, who lives on the Rudolph home-
stead; and Elizabeth, who is Mrs. George Deisroth, of Germania,
Pennsylvania.

After leaving school Mr. Rudolph lived for a time with his
parents, helping them in farming and lumbering. Later he was
employed by the Schwarzenbach Brev/ing Company as a solicitor.
After working as a clerk in a hotel at Galeton, he came to Ham-
mondsport, where he is farming and giving attention to various
interests. He is a young man of good business ability and of public
spirit. His friends predict that he will achieve noteworthy suc-
cess. He is a member of the Lutheran church of Hammondsport.

J. Towner Hatt. — Energetic and enterprising, possessing fine
business and executive ability, J. Towner Hayt is actively identified
with the advancement of the industrial prosperity of Steuben coun-
ty and is numbered among the useful and valued citizens of Corn-
ing, where he is favorably known as the manager of the Southern
Tier Roller Mills. A son of the late Hon. Stephen Thurston Hayt,
he was born October 28, 1870, in Corning, coming from honored
stock on both sides of the house.

HISTORY .OP STEUBEX COUXTY 731

John C. Hayt, his grandfather, came from Patterson, New-
York, to Corning in 1833. He was educated for a physician and
for a number of years was actively engaged in the practice of his'
profession. Being compelled by ill health to retire from practice
he subsequently engaged in the lumber business in Corning, con-
tinuing until his death in 1854, and is doubtless well remembered
by many of the older residents of this part of the county. The
maiden name of his wife was Martha Towner.

Stephen Thurston Hayt was born June 5, 1823, in Patterson,
Putnam county. New York, where he spent the first ten years cf
his life. He was educated in the Knoxville schools, and at the age
of seventeen years went to Elmira, where for three years he was
employed as clerk in a general store. Returning then to Corning
he embarked in mercantile pursuits on his own account before
attaining his majority, for seven years conducting a store of gen-
eral merchandise. He then changed his occupation, becoming
junior member of the lumber firm of Towner & Hayt, which con-
tinued until 1868, when it was dissolved by mutual consent. The
same year, in partnership with Mr. Olcott, he built the Southern
Tier Roller Mills at Corning, and the following year became sole
proprietor of the plant, which he conducted during the next ten
years, manufacturing flour by the old process. The buildings were
destroyed by fire in 1879, but were replaced the same year with
large brick buildings. These were equipped with the latest ap-
proved modern machinery, the plant having a capacity of two
hundred barrels a day. This the original owner managed suc-
cessfully until his death, which occurred August 31, 1907. Stephen
T. Hayt was one of the leading members of the Steuben county
Republicans. He cast his fir^t presidential vote, in 1844, for
Jajnes K. Polk, in 1 872, however, voting for and supporting Horace
Greeley. He was a delegate to the convention in 1860 that nomi-
nated Abraham Lincoln for president; also to the convention that
in 1868 nominated U. S. Grant ; and to the one that in 1884 made
James G. Blaine a presidential candidate ; and to the one that nom-
inated Benjamin Harrison in 1888. In 1863 and 1865 he was
nominated and elected to the state senate. In 1866 he resigned his
position in the senate and was elected canal commissioner for the
state and served for three years. In local affairs he was always
greatly interested, holding many public offices. He married, No-
vember 19, 1856, Margaret C. Townsend, and they became the par-
ents of eleven children.

Completing his early education in the Corning High School
J. Towner Hayt began when young to assist his father in the mill,
hustling as a boy at any work assigned to him. He became thor-
oughly familiar with every department, and is now carrying on
an extensive and substantial business as manager of the milling
property, keeping ten men busily employed. The mill has been
enlarged, having now a capacity of two hundred and fifty barrels
of wheat flour daily, and seventy-five barrels of wheat, which he

733 HISTOBY OF STEUBEX COUXTY

sells at both retail and wholesale. He has spent his entire life in
Corning, for twenty- three years having been engaged in milling.
He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of
Masons and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Edgab Baggerly, proprietor of a hotel at Kanona, New York,
was born April 2, 1847, in Ontario county. New York, a son of
Cranson and Sarah Elizabeth (Derr) Baggerly, the latter of whom
died when her son Edgar was but four years old. The father, also
a native of Ontario county, has followed the trade of a carpenter
all his life and is now living in Rochester, New York, having
reached the age of eighty-seven years.

After completing his education in the common schools Edgar
Baggerly learned the trade of carpenter. At the age of twenty-
two years he engaged in wheel making at Shortsville, New York,
which he continued ten years, and spent three years at Syracuse
in the same occupation. In 1893 he located in Avoca, New York,
where he became a contractor and engaged in manufacturing
wheels. Some years later he engaged in conducting a hotel at
Kanona, which he still continues. He is well established in busi-
ness and has the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens.

Mr. Baggerly belongs to the F. & A. M., No. 673, and to
Chapter No. 95, of Bath. He is a Republican, although he has
never cared to hold public office.

Mr. Baggerly married Christina Bush Vander Carr, daughter
of Clarissa (Canfield) Vander Carr, of Shortsville, New York.
Mrs. Baggerly died at the age of twenty-eight years, having borne
two children: Guy Canfield, twenty- four years of age, married
Nora DeGraff and is a resident of British Columbia, at Wardener,
and has one child, Viola ; Roma Helen, nineteen years of age, mar-
ried Prank Corwin, of Clifton Springs, New York, and they have
one child, Mina Juaneta. Mr. Baggerly married for his second
wife Cora Dillenbeck, born January 6, 1876, daughter of Henry
and Elizabeth M. (Near) Dillenbeck. Mr. Dillenbeck died in 1899
at the age of seventy-one years, and Mrs. Dillenbeck, who is
seventy-nine years of age, lives with Mrs. Baggerly. Besides Mrs.
Baggerly her parents had children as follows : Benjamin, a farmer
living near Wallace, Steuben county, New York; William, a
plumber living at Kanona and Celesta, wife of Albert Snell, of
Wallace. Mrs. Baggerly is a member of the Eastern Star Chapter
No. 360, of Avoca, in which she served three years as secretary,
and also belongs to the Ladies of the Maccabees of Avoca. She
and her husband are well known and popular in social circles.

Gordon M. Patchin.— Any history of Steuben county would
stultify its consistency and appreciable value if within its pages
there were failure to make definite record concerning the Patchin
family, whose name has been indissolubly linked with the annals
of the county for nearly a century, the while the name has stood

HISTOKY OF STEUBEN" COUXTY 733

sponsor for sterling integrity, marked pragmatic ability and potent
influence in the furthering' of the development and upbuilding of
this now favored and opulent section of the old Empire state. The
fine old homestead farm, now comprising one hundred and ninety
acres, and now owned by him whose name introduces this para-
graph, has been in the possession of the family since 1814, in which
year the tract was secured from the government. This admirably
improved property is located in Wayland township, and Hon.
Gordon ]\I. Patchin gives his general supervision to its operation,
having long been numbered among the representative agriculturists
and stock-growers of his native county and having ever held se-
cure vantage ground in the confidence and esteem of the com-
munity, where he is not as a prophet "who is not without honor
save in his own country." Mr. Patchin has served as a repre-
sentative of Steuben county in the state legislature and has held
other positions of public trust, besides which he has for many
years been recognized as a leader in the councils of the Republican
party in his section of the state. Both through personal accom-
plishment and ancestral prestige he eminently merits considera-
tion in this publication.

Gordon M. Patchin was born on the ancestral farmstead which
he now owns and occupies and the date of his nativity was De-
cember 26, 1850. His father, Myron Patchin, was born in Onon-
daga county, this state, in the year 1806, and was a lad of eight
years when, in 1814, his parents removed thence to Steuben county
and established a permanent home in Wayland township, which
had not at that time received its name. Myron Patchin was a son
of Walter Patchin, who was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, on the
24th of July, 1764, and who was a scion of a family, of English
lineage, that was founded in New England in the early colonial
days. Walter Patchin was a boy at the time of the family removal
from Connecticut to Ballston township, Saratoga county. New
York, in which county he was reared to maturity and from which
he eventually removed to Onondaga county, which was his place
of abode until he came to Steuben county in 1814. As a youth he
was in active service as a patriot soldier in the war of the Revo-
lution, and at the time of the burning of the village of Ballston,
Saratoga county, incidental to that conflict, he was wounded by
the Indian allies of the British forces, but was enabled to make
his escape by swimming across the Sacondaga River. He became
one of the first settlers of Wayland township, Steuben county, and
on the site of the present homestead he erected the first log cabin
in the township, the site having gained the name of Patchinville,
when it became the nucleus of the pioneer settlement. Walter
Patchin reclaimed a goodly portion of his land to cultivation and
here continued to reside until his death, in 1854, at the patriarchal
age of ninety years. He was twice married, and the two children
of the first union were Lawrence and Warren, the latter of whom
became a successful physician and surgeon. Nine children were

734 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY

born of the second marriage, and of these Myron, father of the sub-
ject of this review was the seventh in order of birth. Walter
Patchin made the journey to Steuben county with a team of oxen,
and on the spot now known as Patchin Hill one of the oxen fell
and broke its neck, the result being that Mr. Patchin found it
inexpedient to proceed farther and consequently selected at that
point the site for his new home in the midst of the sylvan wilds.

Myron Patchin was reared to manhood in Steuben county and
received his early education in the somewhat primitive schools of
the pioneer era. In due time he became the owner of a consider-
able portion of the old homestead farm and to the same he con-
tinued to devote his attention during the residue of his active
career. He was a man of superior mentality and srerling integrity,
thus wielding no little influence in local afifairs and gaining ad-
vancement through very intelligible merits. He was one of the
founders of the village of Wayland and to the township was later
applied the same name. When application was made to the state
legislature for a charter for the village some difficulty was ex-
perienced in selecting a name satisfactory to that body, and under
these conditions Mr. Hess, a sterling pioneer who was fostering
the cause of the village before the general assembly, returned from
Albany to Wayland for a consultation with Myron Patchin con-
cerning a name for the place, that of Millville having been re-
jected. Incidentally Mr. Patchiu chanced to whistle the melody
of the old song of ' ' Wayland, ' ' and Mr. Hess forthwith gained the
suggestion that no more appropriate name could be secured than
that of Wayland, under which the village charter was finally
granted.

Myron Patchin was originally a Whig in his political pro-
clivities, but at the organization of the Republican party he trans-
ferred his allegiance thereto, ever afterward continuing a stanch
supporter of its cause. He served for a term of years as super-
visor of Wayland township and for thirty years he was incumbent
of the office of justice of the peace. Both he and his wife were
zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and their
names are held in reverent memory by all who came within
the sphere of their kindly influence. Myron Patchin passed to his
reward on October 29, 1890, and his cherished and devoted wife
was summoned to eternal rest on the 8th of December, 1906, at
the age of eighty-three years. She was born in Wayland town-
ship, Steuben county. New York, and was a daughter of Aden and
Nancy (Kenyan) Parmenter; her given name was Razilla, and
her parents were born in Saratoga county, this state, whence they
eventually came to Steuben county, where they passed the re-
mainder of their lives. Myron and Razilla (Parmenter) Patchin
are survived by one son, whose name introduces this article, and
three daughters: Grace, who is the wife of Eugene Sprague, of
Wayland township; Gertrude, who is the widow of Frank Baker
and resides at Cohoeton, this county ; and Cora, who is the wife of

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COITNTY 735

William Greene, of Wayland township. The eldest and youngest
of the daughters, with their husbands, reside with their brother
on the old Patchin homestead.

Gordon M. Patehin was reared to maturity on the ancestral
homestead, which has ever been his place of abode, and after
availing himself of the advantages of the local schools he con-
tinued his studies in turn in Dansville Seminary and Naples Acad-
emy. He has never married and his sisters preside over the do-
mestic economies and social activities of the attractive home. He
has long been numbered among the most progressive and success-
ful farmers and stock-growers of his native county and his high
civic ideals have been indicated by his activity in public affairs
and his zealous interest in all that touches the social and material
welfare of the community. He has been a most effective worker
in behalf of the cause of the Republican party and served for
nearly a quarter of a century as a member of its county committee
in Steuben county, besides which he was a member of its executive
committee in the county for twenty years. Further distinction
came to him in connection with the maneuvering of party forces
when he was chosen a member of the Republican state central com-
mittee, an incumbency which he retains at the, present time. He
represented his native county in the lower house of the state legis-
lature in 1892-3 and a decade later he was again elected to this
office, in which he served during the general assembly of 1902-3.
As a legislator he took advanced ground and did much to further
the best interests of the state and its people and to foster good gov-
ernment and wise legislation. He is interested in various in-
dustrial and business enteiprises of importance in Steuben county
and is one of the substantial, honored and valued citizens of this
favored section of the old Eihpire commonwealth.

Chester Scott Cole. — While the great commonwealth of New
York is especially fortunate in the integrity, character and worth of
the noble men whose names stand high on her roll of representa-
tive citizens, not one is more deserving of note and of remembrance
than that of Chester Scott Cole, late of Corning. He was for many
years identified with many of the leading interests and enterprises
of Coming, and as one of the leading members of the Republican
party was influential in political circles and active in public affairs.
A native of New York, he was born July 1, 1836, in Wirt, Alle-
ghany county, and died June 21, 1906, in Corning, Steuben county,
his death being regarded throughout the community as a personal
sorrow. Ardent and constant in his affections, he was a most ten-
derly devoted husband, a kind and indulgent father and a loving
and loyal friend and companion.

Brought up and educated in his native town, Chester Scott
Cole came to Corning in 1853, and was afterward for a number
of years a passenger conductor on the Erie Railroad. In the early
sixties he embarked in business, in partnership with C. H. Thorn-

736 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

son, as a banker and insurance agent, and also, in company with L. C.
Kingsbury, conducted the Corning Gas Company, one of the most
beneficial early enterprises of the city. With both of these indus-
tries Mr. Cole was actively associated until 1904, when he retired
from active pursuits, spending his last years in well-earned leisure.

Activity in public affairs was almost inevitable in a man of Mr.
Cole's intelligence and caliber, and as a young man he was president
of the village of Corning a number of terms. He was influential in
the Eepubliean party until 1872, when he joined the ranks of the
Liberals, who nominated Horace Greeley for president of the United
States. In 1876 Mr. Cole resumed his former relations with the
Republican party, becoming one of its leaders in southern New
York. In 1880 he was appointed by Governor Alonzo B. Cornell
captain of the port of New York, a responsible position that he
filled satisfactorily for five years. Captain Cole served many times
as delegate to state Republican conventions, always being an im-
portant factor in shaping state politics. He was frequently a mem-
ber of the Republican State Committee for his congressional dis-
trict, in 1885 and 1886 being its chairman. As a delegate to the
Republican convention held in Chicago in 1880 he supported the
movement led by United States Senator Roscoe Conkling in favor
of the nomination of U. S. Grant for a third term as president of
the United States. The captain was one of the "306" delegates of
that convention that voted for General Grant's nomination thirty-
six successive ballots, and subsequently received one of the "306"
bronze medals given to said delegates in commemoration of one of
the fiercest and most notable struggles in the history of American
politics.

, During the earlier years of his residence in Corning Captain
Cole was foreman of the Alliance Hook and Ladder Company, of
which he was a life member. He was a charter member of the Corn-
ing Club, which he served as vice-president, being first vice-president
at the time of his death. During his long and active political career
the captain was regarded as one of the ablest and most sagacious
political leaders in this section of the state. Had he had ambitions
in that line he could doubtless have held high elective offices, but
he preferred to direct and shape party politics and to make and
unmake men. No man in southern New York for a score or more
of years had greater political influence and power than Captain Cole,
his opinions and counsel being often sought and invariably heeded.
He was a man of culture and refinement, endowed with sterling
principles and possessing a keen sense of personal honor. He was
a very congenial companion and had a pleasant acquaintance and
friendship with distinguished men of both parties.

Captain Cole married, in 1855, Adelaide Eleanor Wheat, of
Painted Post, New York, and into their home two children were
born, namely: C. Glen, of Corning, of whom a brief sketch may be
found on another page of this work; and Ma Belle, widow of the
late George T. Hawley, of Corning.

HISTOEY OF STEUBEiST COUXTY 737

Chester Glen Cole. — A worthy representative not only of the
able and progressive business element of Corning but of its native-
born citizens, C. Glen Cole occupies a position of prominence in
manufacturing and commercial circles, being president of both the
Corning Building Company and the Corning Coal Company. A
son of the late Chester Scott Cole, of whom a brief personal history
is given preceding this sketch, he vpas born August 10, 1859.
He had no brothers, but has one sister, Mrs. Ma Belle Hawley, of
Coming, widow of the late George T. Hawley.

Keceiving excellent educational advantages, C. Glen Cole com-
pleted the full course of study in the Coming High School and
was graduated from Cornell tjniversity, Ithaca, New York, with
the class of 1882. During the ensuing eight years he was in the
office of the Fall Brook Coal Company, in 1891 becoming associated
with the well-known firm of M. D. Walker & Company. In 1894,
in company with J. A. Drake, Mr. Cole purchased the entire busi-
ness of his employers and conducted it successfully for ten years,
when, in 1901, it was incorporated as the Corning Company, of
which he has since been president. In 1906 Mr. Cole purchased
the Corning Coal Company, and of this corporation he has since
been at the head. His executive ability, enterprise and integrity are
thoroughly understood by his fellow-workers, who have made him
one of the directors of the First National Bank of Corning and
likewise of the Corning Cooperative Savings and Loan Association.

Mr. Cole married, December 3, 1889, Hattie B. Walker, a
daughter of the late Congressman Cliarles C. B. Walker, in whose
sketch, which appears on another page of this work, further parental
history may be found. Three children have been born to Mr. and
Mrs. Cole, namely: Sidney T., Glen Walker and Dorothea Drake.

Charles C. B. Walker. — 'Honored and respected as a man of
incorruptible integrity, a loyal and law-abiding citizen, the memory
of the late Charles C. B. Walker will long be held in remembrance
throughout Steuben county, more especially in Corning, where for
many years he was prominent in business and political circles. The
descendant of a New England family of worth and distinction, he
was born in New Hampshire, among its rugged hills growing to a
sturdy manhood. Coming to New York in early life he embarked in
the hardware business with Horace Turner, a nephew of Brastus
Corning, the father of the village of Corning and one of its most
prominent residents. The partnership was dissolved in 1857, and
for many years thereafter Mr. Walker conducted an immense credit
business with his customers, being enabled to do so through the kind-
ness and generosity of Mr. Corning, who furnished the stock. He
was very successful as a merchant, and continued in mercantile pur-
suits until his death, January 38, 1888.

Mr. Walker entered the field of public activities in 1856, when
he was appointed postmaster at Corning by President Pierce. In
1859 he was elected state committeeman, and in the twenty-seven

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738 HISTOE^'' OP STEUBP:X COU^TTY

years that he held the position performed the duties devolving upon
him with credit to himself and to the honor of his Democratic con-
stituents. In 1860 he was chosen as a delegate to the Democratic
National Convention, and in the bitter contes* that ensued between
the two candidates, Breckinridge and Douglas, he '^as brought into
opposition with Mr. Corning, who supported BrecMnrr'lsre. It was
confidently expected that Mr. Walker would be so influetti^'' '' Iv Mr.
Coming that he would change his vote, but when the m^i •■'s
broached to him Mr. Walker boldly replied: "My people are f>
Douglas, and I am representing them. All of my business future
is insignificant in comparison with my duty to fulfill and faithfully
discharge the trust imposed upon me by my constituents." His de-
cision was promptly reported to the Breckinridge leader with the
comment of Mr. Coming that ''Walker was right," and that he would
give orders to extend his credit three times as quickly as he would
before this trait in his character had been exhibited.

In 1874 Mr. Walker was elected to Congress in a district that
was a Itepublican stronghold, giving a usual Republican majority
of five thousand votes. During the Ben Hill-Blaine amnesty debate
relating to the charge that rebel prisoners were starved at Elmira,
Mr. Walker's emphatic reply contained but these five words "It is

a lie," a reply that indicated his directness of speech and

the sentiment of loyalty that was ever uppermost in his heart. In
1886 he was elected chairman of the State Committee, and did valu-
able work during the campaign of that season. Fraternally he was>
a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

On March 3, 1854, Mr. Walker married Maria D. Townsend,
of Elmira, New York, and the four children born of their union are
all residents of Palmyra, New York, namelv: Isabel, wife of James
A. Drake; Charles E. ; Hattie E., wife of-C. Glen Cole; and Ed-
win S.

Nkil \\'. Andrews. — By temperament, training and experience
well equipped for his professional career, Neil W. Andrews is rap-
idly climbing the ladder of successful attainments and has estab-
lished a large and remunerative general law practice in Corning.
A son of Jerome \. Andrews, he was born December '^8, 1>!75, in
New Albion, Cattaraugus county, of substantial and honored an-
cestry.

Jerome A. Andrews, a life-long resident of the Empire state,
i(! a man of enter])rise and public spirit. As a young man he served
with bravery in the Civil war, participating in many engagements
of prominence, and he is now active in promoting the interests of
the Grand Army of the Republic. One of the foremost citizens of
Salamanca, he is there prosperously engaged in mercantile pur-
suits, having an extensive trade. To him and his wife, whose maiden
name was Emeline R. Lattin, three children have been born, namely :
Bret Lattin, of Salamanca, a merchant, being in partnership with
his father ; Neil W., the special subject of this brief sketch ; and Max

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 739

W., proprietor of the Teck Theatre at Salamanca and also conduct-
ing a theatre at Perry, New York.

Ijaying a substantial foundation for his future education , in
the public schools Neil W. Andrews received his diploma at . the
Salamanca High School and the Oattaraxigus Academy, and was
graduated from the law department of Cornell University with the
class of 1901. A short time later he was admitted to the New York
bar, and in 1903 was admitted at Pittsburg to the Pennsylvania
bar. Accepting a position as clerk in the office of Thomas Patter-
son, a leading attorney of Pittsburg, he retained the position three
and one-half years, gaining legal knowledge and experience of great
value and the appointment of chief clerk. In 1907 Mr. Andrews
located in Corning, and during the comparatively brief time he has
been a resident of this city has built up an extensive general prac-
tice as an attorney-at-law, being tlfe legal representative of several
Corning organizations and succeeding to much of the business of
John T. Hall, whose office and good will he purchased.

Mr. Andrews married June 29, 1904, Eloise Potter, a daughter
of John E. and Jlargaret Potter, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and to them three children have been born, namely: Jerome A.,
Walton F. and Margaret G.

Av. earnest champion of the principles of the Republican party,
Mr. Andrews has been active and prominent in political circles,
for some time serving as secretary of the Republican County Com-
mittee of Cattaraugiis county. He is an active member of the Corn-
ing Business Men's Association and of the Corning Club. Fra-
ternally jMr. Andrews belongs to Painted Post Lodge No. 117 of
Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons and to the Corning
Consistory, and he is also a member of Corning Lodge No. 107-1,
B. P. 0. E.

James F. Tbant, M. D., has gained precedence as one of the
able and popular representatives of the medical profession in his
native county and is engaged in active practice in the village of
Prattsburg. He is a native son of Steuben county and a member
of one of its old and honored families. He was born on the home-
stead farm in Prattsburg township on> the 10th of August, 1862, ai^d
is a son of John J. and Hannah (Dean) Trant. The father was
numbered among the representative farmers of Steuben county, and
here both he and his wife continued to reside until their death, hon-
ored by all who knew them. Dj-. Trant was reared to the discipline
of the' home farm and after availing himself of the advantages df
the district schools he continued his studies in Franklin AcademJ.
In preparation for the work of his chosen profession he entered the
Long Island Medical College, in the city of New York, in which he
completed the prescribed course and was graduated in June, 1886,
with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After his graduation Dr.
Trant engaged in the practice of his profession in New York city,
where he remained for a period of ten years, when impaired health

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rendered it expedient for him to make a change of location. Under
these conditions he returned to his native county and located in the
village of Prattsburg, where he has been engaged in successful gen-
eral practice since 1896 and where his clientele is of representative
order. He is a member of the Keuka Medical Society and the New
York State Medical Society. Both he and his wife are communi-
cants of the Catholic church in their home village. It is worthy of
note that while engaged in practice in the city of New York Dr.
Trant resided at No. 28 East Twentieth street, in the old home-
stead in which Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was born. The Doctor
takes a public-spirited interest in all that touches the welfare of
the community, and while he has never cared to enter the turmoil of
practical politics he accords a stanch allegiance to the cause of the
Democratic party.

In New York city, in the Vear 1893, was solemnized the mar-
riage of Dr. Trant to Miss Maude Elkins, who was born and reared
in the national metropolis and who is a daughter of the late Au-
gustus Elkins, of that city. The three children of this union are
John, Maude and Agnes, and the respective dates of their birth are
here noted, April 17, 1894; December 30, 4897, and August 27, 1902.

Henky A. Argue, M. D., a practicing physician of Corning,
New York, dates his birth in this city January 23, 1861, and is a
son of Thomas and Catharine (Conor) Argue. Thomas Argue and
wife were born in Ireland, the former January 23, 1830, the latter
in 1836, and they were married in Corning, New York, in 1855.
Of their family of four children, Dr. Henry A. Argue was the third
born and is the only one now living, the others being as follows:
Charles E., born in 1856, died in January, 1871 ; William, born in
1859, died in 1887 ; and Mrs. Louise Purtill, born in September,
1864, died in Buffalo, New York, in November, 1908.

Heni-y A. Argue received his first schooling in Corning Acad-
emy. Afterward he spent two years at McGill University, Mon-
treal, where he studied both art and medicine, following his course
there with three years in the study of medicine in New York Uni-
versity, of which institution he is a graduate with the class of 1881.
The year after receiving his degree of M. D. he settled down to the
practice of his profession at his old home. Corning, and here for
nearly thirty years he has successfully conducted a general practice.
He is employed as physician for the New York Central, Erie and
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad companies, also the street
railway of Corning, and is pension examiner for the New York Cen-
tral Insurance Company. He is a member of the Corning Academy
of Medicine, the Steuben County Medical Association and the New
York State ]\ledical Association.

On November 25, 1899, Dr. Argue married Miss Tressa Bowes,
daughter of ]\Irs. Anna Bowes, of Bath, New York, and to them has
been given one son, Thomas H. Argiie, who was born November 8,
1900.

HISTORY OF STEUBE]Sr COUNTY ■ 741

Fraternally Dr. Argue is identified with numerous organiza-
tions in addition to the medical societies above named, among them
being the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Red Men, Elks and
Eagles. Politically he is a Democrat.

Mrs. Harriet L. Davis, of Hornell, comes of old New Yofk
families, on both sides of the house, and, almost as a matter of
course, she has the blood of patriots in her veins; in fact, it was no
further back than the fourth generation of her maternal ancestors
when her gi'eat-grandfather Baker bravely served as a Revolutionary
soldier.

Mrs. Davis was born about a mile from her present residence
in Hornell, on the 35th of July, 1833, and is a daughter of Leander
C. and Minerva (Baker) Stevens. Her father, a native of Steuben
county, was born November 26, 1806, her mother's birthday being
October 25, 1814, and the place of her nativity, Clarence, Erie
county. New York. Reared at Hornell and educated in its public
school, the subject of this sketch was married July 8, 1861, to Anson
Davis, a son of James and Phoebe (Osborne) Davis, who was born
in 1837. The parents resided during the later years of their lives
in Fremont, Steuben county.

To ilr. and Mrs. Davis was born, in 1867, a daughter Nettie,
who married Alvin G. Miller and became the mother of the follow-
ing: Grace, Mildred, Elouise, Willie and Clifford, the latter dying
in infancy. The father of the family was engaged in the meat trade
for twenty-one years, and a citizen of industry and probity. His
death, September 12, 1891, meant the great loss to the community
of an honest man and a Christian gentleman.

ilrs. Davis was one of the following, of which all are deceased
but herself and her sister Joanna and one brother, D. V. Stephens.
Mary Eliza, Maria, Betsey, Amanda, Bazy, Delevan and William are
deceased.

William E. Gorton. — A man of rare business ability, tact and
judgment, William E. Gorton has contributed largely towards the
material progress of Corning, his native city, and to its substantial
development along industrial lines, his widely extended enterprises
bringing him into prominence in manufacturing and financial opera-
tions. He was born in Corning village October 9, 1854, and acquired
his elementary education in the public schools.

An ambitious student, he was graduated from the Corning
Academy with the class of 1872, after which he continued his studies
at the State Normal School in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, for a year.
Going then to Poughkeepsie, New York, he was graduated from
Eastman's Business College, after which he studied medicine for
three years with Dr. Updegraff, a specialist, in Elmira, New York.
ilr. Gorton then entered the Hahnemann ^ledical College in New
York city, where in 1878, after takincr a full course of three year?,
he was graduated with the degree of M. D.

?42 HISTOIfY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

Eeturning to Corning, Dr. Gorton laid aside Ms well-earned
title of Doctor of Jledicine and became a clerk in the Fall Brook
Company, of which he was sabsequentl}' assistant superintendent for
three _years. Becoming then a contractor in railway construction,
he as junior member of the firm of Griffin & Gorton built in whole
or in part several of the southern railroads, including the Charles-
ton, Cincinnati and Chicago Eailroad; a part of the Piedmont Air
Line extension in North and South Carolina, and likewise the
Eoanoke and Southern Eailway in North Carolina.

In 1889 IMr. Gorton again returned to Corning, and during
the same year established the Corning Iron Works, which he sold
later to the American Brake-Shoe & Foundry Company, and of
which he was acting manager until the incorporation, in 1893, when
he was elected to the responsible position of president and manager.
He has other interests of note, and as president of the Hunger Candy
Company is carrying on a substantial business both as a manufac-
turer and as a merchant. Noted from earliest youth up for his
patriotism and loyal spirit, he was known during the Civil war as
the "Drummer Boy of the Southern Tier." Politically Mr. Gorton
is a stanch Democrat, and although never an aspirant for public
office he served as first mayor of Corning under the city charter. In
1893 he was the Democratic nominee for state senator, but refused
the nomination.

On May 18, 1877, Mr. Gorton was united in marriage with
Clara Belle Stevens, a daughter of Peabody Stevens, of Buffalo,
New York, and to them six children have been born, namely : Ethel
Louise, Belle, Alonzo, Hiram, William E. and Gretchen.

Eev. J'esse A. Eyan, rector of the Protestant Episcopal church
at Hammondspoi't, Steuben county. New York, was born at Lock
Haven, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1875, a son of James F. Eyan, a
native of AVhitedeer, Union county, that state. Scarcely out of
school, a boy of sixteen, James F. Eyan enlisted to fight under the
stars and stripes in our Civil war. He was a member of Company
H, Fifty-third Eegimeut, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which
was included in the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. He served
through the war, participating in many engagements, great and
small, risking his life times innumerable, and after taking part in
the Grand Review at Washington was mustered out and permitted
to return home. That was a great experience for a lad of from six-
teen to- perhaps twenty, a beginning in life that might have made
such an one fit for any fate, equal to any responsibility to which he
might be called. One must have lived in the time of that struggle
to comprehend what it was. After the war the young man settled
at Lock Haven. He was a Grand Army man, of course, and he was
a member of the Union A'eteran Legion, too, and a communicant of
the • Presbyterian chiirch. He married, in 1874, Jennie Elizabeth
Smith, a Pennsylvanian by birth, who is living, aged fifty-two. Her
father was William Gibbs Smith, who married Mary Holly. Mr.
Ryan died in 1902. He left two sons, Ernest Eugene Ryan, of Lock
Haven, and the subject of this article.

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 743

After leaving school Jesse Asa Ryan entered the Pennsylvania
Central State Normal School, where he was graduated in 1895. He
taught in the public school at Fairport, Clinton county, Pennsyl-
vania, till 1898. He was graduated from Hobart College in 1903.
Later he took a special course in theology at the Episcopal Theo-
logical Scliool at Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the intervals of
study he worked as a painter in order to procure money with which
to meet his educational expenses. He was ordained a deacon on
June 10, 1906, in Trinity church, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and
was made a priest by Bishop Darlington February 20, 1900, at
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He took charge of St. Mary's churcli
at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in July, 1906. On April 1, 1909,
he was called to the rectorship of the Protestant Episcopal parish
of Lawrenceville and Tioga, Pennsylvania. On February 1, 1910,
he was called to Hammondsport, where he is laboring successfully
and winning many friends.

'Sh: Ryan is a Mason, a member of Blue Lodge No. 106, of
Williamsport, Pennsylvania; of the Consistory (thirty-second de-
gree) at Corning, New York, and of Damascus Temple, A. A. 0. N.
M. S. He is a member, too, of the Sons of Veterans, Camp 46, of
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and is division chaplain in that order
and brigade chaplain with the rank of major. He married, April
22, 1908, Mary Emily Perkins, who was born January 7, 1880, at
Baldwinsville, New York, a daughter of Charles Jenckes and Ann
Tlieresa (Holihan) Perkins.

JoHX L. Lewis. — Noteworthy among the active and progres-
sive citizens of Steuben county is John L. Lewis, of Corning, cashier
of the Fall Brook Coal Company. A son of the late Dr. E. W. Lewis,
he was born January 21, 1851, in Watkins, Schuyler county, New
York, coming from honored New England ancestry, the founder of
the branch of the family from which he is descended having been
a passenger on the Mayflower. He is of Welsh lineage, and many of
his ancestors were people of prominence and influence in Connecti-
cut, where his great-great-grandfather, Eldad Lewis, was a life-long
resident. His great-grandfather, John Lewis, a native of Connecti-
cut, was for a long time one of the instructors in Yale College.

John L. Lewis, the first, grandfather of Mr. Lewis, was born
and brought up in New Haven, Connecticut, and, eagerly availing
himself of the opportunity granted him for advancing his education,
was graduated when a young man from Yale College, in which he
was likewise a teacher for some time. Following the tide of emi-
gration to- New York in 1797, he settled as a pioneer in Geneva,
Ontario, where he was engaged as a physician and a teacher for
about five years. In 1802 he became a pioneer of Yates county,
settling in Benton, where he soon became prominent in public af-
fairs, holding various town and county offices and serving a number
of terms as postmaster. He died at the advanced age of eighty-five
years, having lived a long and useful life.

744 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

A native of Yates county, New York, Dr. E. W. Lewis inherited
the scholarly tastes of his immediate ancestors, and having fitted
himself for the medical profession was for many years one of the
leading physicians of Watkins, where he died at the age of seventy-
six years. Dr. Lewis was twice married. By his first wife, whose
maiden name was Eelief Holden, he had two children, Charles C.
and Caroline S. He married for his second wife Mary C. Gardiner,
who was born in Khode Island, a daughter of Captain David Gar-
diner, a native of Providence, Ehode Island. She survived him,
passing away at the age of eighty-three years in Watkins, New York.
Four children were born of the second marriage, Edwin A., Martin
G., Mary E. and John L. Of these six children Caroline S. and
John L. are the only ones now living.

Going to Penn Yan, New York, when sixteen years of age, John
L. Lewis lived with his uncle, John L. Lewis, for two years. Dur-
ing the ensuing four years he was bookkeeper for the Morris Coal
Mining Company at Morris Eun, Tioga county, Pennsylvania. Lo-
cating then in Blossburg, Pennsylvania, Jlr. Lewis had charge of
the business of Pomeroy & Smith until 1878, when he accepted the
position of bookkeeper for the Fall Brook Company at Watkins,
New York. Coming from there to Corning, he has won a position
of prominence among the leading men of the city, and since 1903
has ably filled his present position as cashier of the Fall Brook
Coal Company. He is identified with various city enterprises, being
one of the directors of the First National Bank of Corning and
treasurer of the Corning Co-operative Savings and Loan Association.

A stanch Eepublican in politics, Mr. Lewis has been active in
public affairs, in 1884 serving as president of the village of Corning,
and at the present time being a member of the Corning Board of
Education. Socially he is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars
of the state of New York, and fraternally he is prominent in the
Masonic order, belonging to lodge, chapter and consistory, and has
taken the thirty-second degree of Masonry. His uncle, John L.
Lewis, for whom he was named, v/as a thirty-third degree Mason and
very prominent in the order, having served as grand master of the
state of New York and having been past sovereign grand commander
of the Supreme Council of the Northern Jurisdiction.

Mr. Lewis married, January 20, 1875, Belle Townsend, a daugh-
ter of Nathaniel Townsend, of Glenora, New York, and they are
the parents of two children, namely: Kate, wife of E. H. Gorton, of
Hornell, New York, and Spencer, who was educated at the Lawrence-
ville School, Lawreneeville, New Jersey.

Francis C. Williams.— Prominent among the foremost lawyers
of Steuben county is Francis C. Williams of Corning, who belongs
to the inner circle of the bar. The field of his professional labors
has been broad, and his fine legal attainments and his noted suc-
cess have won for him a wide and merited reputation throughout
this section of the Empire state. A native of Corning, he was born

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 745

November 26, 1864, in the house in which he now resides and which
has always been his home, being a son of the late Francis A.
Williams. He comes of Welsh lineage, the emigrant ancestor from
which he is descended having emigrated from Wales to this coun-
try about 1640. His great-grandfather, Joseph H. Williams, was
born and reared in Connecticut, from there removing to Yates
county, New York, in 1801, settling in Rushville, where on May
8, 1809, his son, Ira C. Williams, Mr. Williams' grandfather, was
born.

Francis A. Williams was born, March 25, 1834, in Prattsburg,
New York. He early determined to enter the legal profession, and
in 1862, at Rochester, New York, he was admitted to the bar. Lo-
cating the following year in Corning, he was here a practicing at-
torney until his death, which occurred very suddenly, December
21, 1901. He was quite active in public affairs and a valued mem-
ber of the Presbyterian church. His wife, whose maiden name was
Jane Clark, was born November 29, 1838, in Urbana, Steuben
county, a daughter of Solomon Clark, who came to this part of
the state in pioneer days from New Jersey, settling in the midst of
the woods. Five children were born of their union, namely ; Mary
G., a professor at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massa-
chusetts; Francis C, the special subject of this sketch; Clark B.,
professor of mathematics at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michi-
gan; Jane, wife of W. H. Insley, of Indianapolis, Indiana; and
Elizabeth, who died July 5, 1908.

Acquiring his elementary education in the graded schools of
Corning, Francis C. Williams was graduated from the University
of Rochester with the class of 1888. He subsequently studied law
under his father's tuition, and in 1891 was admitted to the bar.
Immediately entering his father's office, he was engaged in the
practice of his profession with him until the death of the father in
1901. Since that time Mr. Williams has continued the practice
alone, meeting with excellent success in his legal work, his opinions
and counsel being much sought for the guidance of large interests
and in the solution of perplexing legal problems. He has rendered
excellent service as a public official, having been justice of the
peace in 1890, city recorder in 1892, city attorney for four years
and at the present writing, in 1910, being a member of the Corning
Board of Education.

Mr. Williams is prominent in social and fraternal circles, being
past master of Painted Post Lodge No. 117, F. & A. M. ; past high
priest of Corning Chapter No. 94, R. A. M. ; a member of Corning
Consistory ; and has taken the thirty-second degree of Masonry. He
is also a charter member of the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Politically Mr. Williams is an uncompromising Democrat, and re-
ligiously he is an active member of the Presbyterian church, in
which he is an elder. He is unmarried and lives with his widowed
mother in the home which has always been his dwelling place.

746 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUXTY

William iEciliCHAEL. — At this point is entered brief record
concerning one of the native sons of Steuben county^ who has here
been actively identified with the great basic art of agriculture from
the time of his youth and who is one of the representative farmers
of Prattsburg township. The estimate placed iipon him in his native
township is shown by the fact that he is now serving as its super-
visor, a position of which he has been incumbent since 1907 and the
duties of which he has administered with great discrimination and
ability, as m^ evident from his continuous retention of the office which
involves the handling of the public funds of the township and the
fostering of its varied interests.

AVilliam ilcMichael was born in Prattsburg township on the
9th of ilav, 1866, and is a son of Alexander and Mary (Risdale)
;Mc]\Iichael. both of whom continued to reside in this township until
their death. They were numbered among the sterling, citizens of
Steuben county, and here the father was a prosperous agriculturist
and an influential citizen of Prattsburg township, where he ever
commanded unequivocal confidence and esteem. William ilcMichael
was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and his early
educational advantages were those afforded in the district schools,
which he attended until he had attained to the age of nineteen years,
in the meanwhile having been associated in the work and manage-
ment of the horoe farm. As already noted, his active career has
been one of close identification with farming interests, and he eventu-
ally purchased the old homestead farm, which comprises three hun-
dred and two acres of most productive land and which is eligibly
located two and one-half miles north of the village of Prattsburg.
Mr. McMichael is a bachelor, and with him on the old homestead
resides his sister and two older brothers. He is a member of the
directorate of the Prattsburg State Bank and iS one of the sub-
stantial citizens of his native county, where he is well upholding
the prestige of the honored name which he bears. He is affiliated
with Prattsburg Lodge Xo. 583, Free and Accepted ^lasons, and with
Prattsburg Lodge No. 598, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In
politics he has ever given an unqualified allegiance to the Re-
publican party, and he has shown a public-spirited interest in all
that touches the ivelfare of the community, giving his support to
measures and enterprises that have conserved the social and indus-
trial advancement of the county. In 1907 he was elected supervisor
of Prattsburg township and as a member of the county board he has
shown distinctive loyalty and progressiveness the while he has been
specially earnest in forwarding the best interests of his home town-
ship.

Charles M. Gammox. — Corning, Xew York, counts among her
worthy citizens a sterling Englishman, who has to his credit nearly
sixty years of business activity in the town — Charles il. Gammon.
He was born in England October 15, 1824, and when a young man
was united in marriage, at Christ's church, [Marylebone, London, with

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 747

Miss ilaria Boddington, who was born in England in 1822, a niece
of Lord Boddington. She accompanied him to America and here
shared his joys and sorrows until her death, which occurred in 1870.
To them were given three children who grew to adult age, namely:
Mrs. Mima Hood, a resident of Corning, New York; Dr. A. M.
Gammon, of Oaklorna, New Y'ork; and Mrs. Anna Hill, of Fall
River, Wisconsin.

It was in 1848 that Mr. Gammon landed in New York city,
after an Atlantic voyage of six weeks in a sailing vessel. Going
direct to Philadelphia, he spent six weeks in that city, but at the
end of that time returned to New York and entered the employ of
John Brooks, a shoe manufacturer on Broadway. In England he
had learned the trade of shoe-cutter, and on coming to this country
took up that line of work. After remaining in New York one year
he spent two years in the employ of a Mobile firm, following that
with a few months each in New Albany, Utiea and Syracuse. On
June 17, 1851, he landed in Corning, and at once entered the service
of a ilr. Fuller, a boot and shoe dealer who occupied a store on
the same site on East Market street now occupied by Mr. Gammon.
He engaged in business here for himself in 1864, and in 1895 built
a three-story brick block. Also he owns a store building adjoining
the one in which he does business. His honest, active, regular life
has kept him in excellent physical condition, and now, although past
eighty-six years of age, he looks the picture of health, reads and
writes without the aid of glasses, is erect and active as a man of
forty and regularly attends to his duties at the old stand. His
kindly attitude toward his fellow-men during his long residence in
Corning has won for him their high esteem, and he counts among
his many friends both the old and the young and people in various
walks of life.

^lany times Mr. Gammon has been solicited to accept political
office, but has always refused. He has ever taken a commendable
interest in public affairs, however, voting the Republican ticket and
always presenting himself promptly at the polls on election day. He
wtis made a member of Painted Post Lodge, F. and A. M., in
1854 and has advanced in the order up to and including'the thirty-
second degree. In 1861 and 1862 he served his lodge as worshipful
master and represented it in the Grand Lodge of New York. He
has long been a worthy member of the Episcopal church.

Jerome J. Barber. — This well known and highly respected
citizen of the town of Prattsburg was born in Pulteney, Steuben
county, September 3, 1883, a son of J. C. and Caroline (Mace)
Barber, both of whom are yet living there. He was reared on his
father's homestead and educated in the primary branches in the
district school near by. Later he was a student at Franklin Acad-
emy at Prattsburg. From the time he left school until he was
twenty-two years old he farmed on his father's land. Then, in 1895,

748 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

he married Anna Ringrose, a native of Prattsburg and a daughter
of John and Elizabeth Eingrose.

After his marriage Mr. Barber bought a hundred and eighty-
seven acres of land a mile and a quarter north of the village of
Prattsburg, where he has achieved success as a general farmer and
stockraiser. His knowledge of farming was obtained in the prac-
tical school of actual experience, and he is as well informed a farmer
as is operating anywhere in the county at this time. He is an excep-
tionally well posted stockman, too. In his hands a farm is handled
as scientifically as is possible, the best is planted, the crops are care-
fully cultivated, they are harvested on time, are properly cared for
and are sent to market in good form and in good time to bring the
best possible prices. No one in northern Steuben county raises bet-
ter stock than does Mr. Barber and no one sells to better advantage.

Mr. Barber is a member of Prattsburg Lodge No. 598, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. In his political affiliations he is a
Republican, but he is not an office seeker and has resolutely refused
such offices as have been proffered him, yet he is a man of undoubted
public spirit, who is ready at all times to do anything in his power
to advance any measure for the general good of the community.

Michael F. McNamaea. — A man of undoubted legal talent
and ability, Michael F. ilcNamara, of Corning, has won notable suc-
cess as a general practitioner of law, his clientele being large and
remunerative. He was born February 19, 1870, in Howard, Steuben
county, New York, being a posthumous son of the late Michael Mc-
Namara, who was born in Ireland and died in Howard, New York,
in 1869.

Spending his boyhood days in Howard, Michael F. McNamara
acquired his first knowledge of books in the common schools, sub-
sequently being graduated from the Canisteo Academy in 1891.
He afterwards taught school for a while, in the meantime continu-
ing his studies for six months, preparing himself for college. Tak-
ing the Cornell examinations in Hornell, he won a Cornell scholar-
ship and immediately entered the Cornell University, from which
he was gra'duated with the class of 1895. In June, 1895, Mr. Mc-
Namara successfully passed the bar examinations at Rochester, New
York, and was admitted to practice before the courts of New York.
In 1896 he located in J^ew York city, where he was engaged in the
practice of his profession for two or more years, obtainiig a fine
start as a lawyer. Opening a law office in Elmira, New York, in
1900, he remained there until November, 1907, when he located in
Corning, where he has already established a good general practice,
being now one of the leading attorneys of the city.

Mr. McNamara married, April 29, 1903, Josephine Lonergan,
and they have one son, Francis McNamara. ]\Ir. McNamara takes
an active and intelligent interest in local affairs and is a member
of the Improved Order of Red Men and of the Knights of Columbus.

HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 749

Herman E. Lobeck. — Incumbent of the office of assistant su-
perintendent of the Pleasant Valley Wine Cellar at Eheims, New
York, Mr. Lobeck is numbered among the highly esteemed citizens
and representative business men of Steuben county, and his standing
in the community is such, as to well entitle him to recognition in
this publication.

Herman E. Lobeck takes a due measure of satisfaction in ad-
verting to the historic Old Dominion commonwealth as the place ol
his nativity. He was born at Harrisonburg, Eockingham county,
Virginia, on the 14th of July, 1849, and is of stanch German lineage
,on both the paternal and maternal sides. He is a son of Herman
and ilargaret (Greiss) Lobeck, both of whom were born in the
kingdom of Saxony, Germany. Herman Lobeck was reared and
educated in his native land, whence he came to America when u
yoiing man. He whose name initiates this sketch is the only child
of Herman and Margaret (Greiss) Lobeck. The mother ultimately
contracted a second marriage, having been united to Frederick Ar-
land, and she passed the closing years of her life at Hdmmondsport,
where she died in 1864, at the age of forty-five years. Her second
husband died at Ovid, New Y^ork, having survived her by a num-
ber of years. Of the second marriage were born three sons and
two daughters: Frederick 0. is now deceased and his widow re-
sides in Hammondsport, Steuben county; William F. is a resident
of Urbana township, this county; Charles E. operates a vineyard
in Urbana township ; Emma is the widow of Charles Vanderlip and
resides at Penn Y'an, New Y'ork; and NTellie is the wife of Charles
Merrill, a resident of Bath, New Y'ork.

Herman E. Lobeck was reared to maturity at Eheims, New
Y'ork. and his early educational advantages were those afEorded in
the public schools. After leaving school he entered the employ of
the Pleasant Valley Wine Company, and he has continued to be
actively associated with the affairs of this corporation during the
long intervening period of nearly half a century. He identified him-
self with the company in 1865 and he has proved a valued and
effective factor in connection with the upbuilding of its extensive
enterprise. He has been assistant superintendent of the company's
wine cellar for the past thirty-five years, and in an individual way
he also owns a farm and a well improved vineyard. Mr. Lobeck is
loyal to all civic duties and takes an earnest interest m all that
touches the welfare of his home city and county. He is a Eepubli-
can in his political allegiance, and both he and his wife hold mem-
bership in the Presbyterian church. He is affiliated with Pleasant
Valley Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he served as master
for two vears. and he is also identified with the Hammondsport
organization of the Improved Order of Eed Men. He is well known
in Steuben county and has a secure place in popular confidence and
esteem, the while-he has gained a due measure of success and is one
of the 'substantial citizens of the county. . ,r t u i

In the year 1870 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lobeclv
to Miss Jane Osterhout, who was born at Mitchellsville, Steuben

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county, on the 86th of January, 1851, and who is a daughter of the
late Abram and Rachel (Warner) Osterhout. Concerning the chil-
dren of this union the following brief record is entered in conclu-
sion of this review: Charles C, who is superintendent of Borden's
Condensed Milk factory in Algonquin, Illinois, married Miss Sadie
McKee, and they have no children ; Mignonette is the widow of
Louis E. Durham, resides at Rheims, Xew York, and has one child,
Lobeck Durham; Herman E., Jr., a carpenter by trade and voca-
tion and residing at Fairport, Monroe county, New York, married
iliss Gertrude Austin, and they have no children ; William L., who
remains at the parental home, is a bookkeeper and Ernest 0., who
has charge of his own and the vineyard owned by his father, married
Miss Josephine Calkins, of WoodhuU, New York, and they have one
child, Edward Jesse.

Frank J. NELSO>f. — The present mayor of the City of Hornell
is one of the representative members of the bar of Steuben county
and is a citizen whose loyalty and public spirit are uniformly rec-
ognized. Mr. Nelson was born at Titusville, Crawford county,
Pennsylvania, on the 2Sth of December, 1867, and is. a son of Cap-
tain Alanson H. and Electa (Strong) Nelson, both of Chautauqua
•county. New York. Captain Nelson served with distinction as a
soldier in the Civil war, a member of Company K, Fifty-Seventh
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was in active service for
three years and four months and in command of his regiment as
acting colonel some months before receiving his honorable discharge.
Prior to the war he had been engaged in farming and also identified
with lumbering operations. After the close of his military career
he became concerned with oil operations in Pennsylvania, in which
state he continued to reside until 1884, when he removed to the
state of Minnesota, where he has since maintained his home. For
nearly twenty years he was editor and proprietor of the Northeast
Argus, a weekly newspaper, in the city of Minneapolis, and now at
the venerable age of eighty-three years is actively engaged in his
work. Captain Nelson and his wife became the parents of five sons
and four daughters, all of whom attained to years of maturity ex-
cept one daughter, and of the number four sons and two daughters
are now living.

Frank J. Nelson passed his boyhood days on his father's farm
m Oil Creek township, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and his
early education was secured in the district schools. Through his
own efforts he secured the funds that enabled him to pursue a
course of study in the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Edin-
boro, Erie county. Upon leaving this institution he came to Hor-
nell ^ew York. He was graduated in the Hornellsville Business
College and later became a student in Alfred Universitv In 1892
he began the study of law, under effective preceptorship, and in
October, 1895, was admitted to the bar. He at once engaged in the
practice of his profession in Hornell. In March, 1895 Mr Nelson

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was elected justice of the peace, and in 1898 he was elected to the
office of police judge, in which position he continued incumbent
until 1900, when he was chosen chief executive of the city of Hor-
nell. That year his party placed him in nomination for Eepresen-
tative in Congress and though defeated it was by a greatly reduced
majority. He was elected mayor as his own successor in 1903, and
after voluntarily retiring was again elected to that office in 1909.
His present term will expire January 1, 1912. In politics Mr.
Nelson is a progressive Democrat. He is affiliated with the ^Masonic
fraternity, the Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in
which latter he has- held important official positions, including tliat
of District Deputy Grand Master, etc.

On the 4th of June, 1901, Mr. Nelson was united in marriage
to Miss Irene M. Clark, daughter of Thomas C. and Mary (Leach)
Clark, of Hornell.

Henry C. Olney, Je. — The great industry of agriculture in
Steuben county has an able representative in the person of Henry
C. Olney, Jr., who is the owner of a well improved farm of one
hundred and sixteen acres in Prattsburg township and who also
owns real estate in the village of Prattsburg, where he maintains his
home. He is at the present time incumbent of the office of township
clerk, and this preferment indicates the unequivocally high esteem
in which he is held in the community. Henry C. Olney, Jr., was
born in Naples township, Ontario county, New York, on the 35th of
December, 1876, and is a son of Henry C. and Sarah (Hill) Olney,
both of whom now reside in the village of Naples, that county. Both
were born and reared in this state, and the active career of the
father has been principally in connection with the vocation of a
farmer. He whose name initiates this review was afforded the ad-
vantages of the excellent public schools of the village of Naples and
supplemented this training by a course in Starkey Seminary. He
continued to reside in his native county until 1904, when he removed
to Steuben county and purchased his present well improved farm
in Prattsburg township. He is known as an energetic and enter-
prising citizen, and his sterling attributes of character have gained
to him unqualified confidence and esteem in the community in which
he has elected to maintain his home. In politics he accords a stanch
allegiance to the Democratic party and he has the distinction of
being the first representative of this party to be elected clerk of
Prattsburg township in many years. He is affiliated with Prattsburg
Lodge, No. 598, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is
serving as warden at the time of this writing, 1910, and both he and
his wife are zealous and valued members of the Methodist Episcopal
church in the village of Prattsburg, in which he is a member of the
board of trustees.

In the year 1898 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Olney to
Miss Alida Rippey, of Prattsburg, and they have one son, Hildreth
C, who tvas born" on the 18th of May, 1906.

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Dr. John F. Dwyer belongs to the younger ranks of the medical
profession in Corning, New York, with which he identified himself
about four years ago. A brief sketch of his life gives the following
facts :

John F. Dwver was born May 13, 1880, at Painted Post, Steu-
ben county, New "York. He received his early education in the com-
mon schools, later attended Mansfield Normal School and Niagara
University, Niagara Falls, and made special preparation for his life
work at Columbus, Ohio, where in 1901 he entered the Ohio Medical
University, of which he is a graduate with the class of 1905. The
year following his graduation he began the practice of his profes-
sion in Corning. Soon, however, an opportunity for a broader ex-
perience presented itself and he went to Buffalo Hospital, Sisters of
Charity, where he remained a year and a half, returning at the end
of that time to Corning to take up and continue his practice here,
where he has met with success and where he now occupies the posi-
tion of city physician.

Dr. Dwyer is a member of the Corning Medical Association and
the Steuben County ]\redical Society. Politically he is a Democrai,
fraternally an Elk and religiously a Catholic. He is unmarried.

William N. Hallock.— One of the old and substantial financial
institutions of Steuben county is the George W. Hallock Bank,
founded in January, 1849, in the city of Bath, and the same has
had a record covering a period of more than sixty years of con-
secutive success, and that under the active control and management
of members of the Hallock family. He whose name initiates this
paragraph is now an executive of the Hallock Bank.

William N. Hallock was born in Bath, Steuben county, on the
19th day of July, 1886, and is a son of William H. Hallock and
Louise Nowlen Hallock, the former of whom was bom in Bath, New
York, in the year 1856, and the latter of whom was born in Avon,
New York, in the year 1855. William N. Hallock is a great-
grandson of Hon. William S. Hubbell, who was long a prominent
and influential citizen of Steuben county, a founder of the George
W. Hallock Bank and who served as a member of Congress. George
W. Hallock, grandfather of him whose name introduces this article,
was born in Dutchess county. New York, in 1819. In 1834 he re-
moved with his family to Steuben county and settled in Bath, which
was then a straggling village. Here he established a flour mill and
a saw mill, and one of these early mills was located on the present
site of the New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home. He be-
came one of the leading business men and most influential and
honored citizens of the county, and the prestige of the name has
been admirably sustained by his son, William H. Hallock, and his
grandson, William N., who, as liberal, upright and progressive citi-
zens, have contributed much to the material and civic advancement
of this favored section of the old Empire state.

William H. Hallock, the only son of George W. Hallock and
ilary (Hubbell) Hallock, was indebted to the public schools of his

HISTOKY" OF STEUBEN COUNTY 755

native place for his early educational discipline, which was effectively
supplemented by a course in Trenton College, Trenton, New Jersey,
in which institution he was graduated. After the completion of his
collegiate course Mr. Hallock became identified with the bank of
which his father had been the founder so many years ago, and until
the time of his death, April 17, 1908, he continued with this in-
stitution, through his effective association with which he gained pre-
cedence as one of the representative financiers and substantial capi-
talists of his native county, where his course was such as to gain
and retain to him the inviolable confidence and esteem of those with
whom he came in contact in the various relations of life. He showed
a deep interest in all that touched the welfare of his home city and
county, and while he was never ambitious for public office he served
two terms as mayor of Bath, giving a most careful and acceptable
administration of municipal affairs. The Hallock family is the
owner of much valuable real estate in their native county, including
both city and farm property.

William N. Hallock, the present head of the George W. Hallock
Bank is a graduate first of the Haverling High School, class of 1904,
and then of Cornell University, class of 1907, receiving degree of
L.L. B. He is a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity, also of the
Phi Delta Phi and numerous college clubs and societies. He was
admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one, and at the death of his
father, \\'. H. Hallock, he, as the third generation, assumed charge
of the George W. Hallock Bank. Like his father he has never en-
tered into polities, but he is one of the trustees of Bath. He is a member
of Steuben Lodge, No. 112, F. & A. j\[., and of Bath Chapter, No.
95, E. A. Isl., and of the Empire State Society Sons of the American
Eevolution. He is a director of the Wheeler-Holden Company of
Buffalo, one of the largest and most successful railroad tie companies
in the country, vice-president of the Bath Harness Company and
president of the Eoualet Wine Company of Hammondsport, New
York. On the 19th day of October, 1910, in the city of Washington,
D. C, was solemnized the marriage of W. N. Hallock to Miss Shelby
Lee Eobinson, daughter of the late John Hancock Eobinson and
Frances Lyn (Scraggs) Eobinson, and a granddaughter of Archibald
Magill Eobinson of Louisville, Kentucky.

Walter S. McCarty. — A man of broad capabilities and in-
domitable energy and perseverance, Walter S. McCarty is numbered
among the more active and valued citizens of Corning, where he is
carrving on a general insurance business. He was born December
26, 1879, in Biossburg, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, a son of J. J.
and Mary (Eyan) McCarty.

Brought up in Bradford, Pennsylvania, Walter S. McCarty was
educated in the public schools of that place, remaining there until
twenty vears of age. Coming to Corning, Steuben county. New
York, in 1899. he was in the employ of the T. H. Wheeler Company
as a salesman' for four years, during the ensuing three years being

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corresponding clerk for the First National Bank of Corning. Gain-
ing business experience, self-confidence and self-reliance while em-
ployed in those positions, Mr. McCarty in 1906 established himself
in the insurance business, in which he has since been extensively and
profitably engaged, being a leader in his line of industry.

Mr. McCarty is prominent in fraternal organizations, being a
member of Corning Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. 0. E., of the Knights
of Columbus, and also of the Coming Club.

Clarence A. Dunning. — 'Incumbent of the office of bookkeeper
for the Urban a Wine Company, with headquarters in the village of
Urbana, Mr. Dunning is numbered among the popular young busi-
ness men of Steuben county and is a representative of one of the
honored pioneer families of this section of the old Empire State.
He was born at BlufE Point, Yates county, New York, on the 30th
of July, 1881, and is the only child of Hiram 0. and Elizabeth C.
(Chase) Dunning, the former of whom was likewise born at BlufE
Point and the latter of whom was born at Penn Yan, Yates county,
being a daughter of Elias Chase, a prominent citizen of that county.
Hiram 0. Dunning devoted the major part of his active career to
agricultural pursuits and to the raising of grapes, and he died at
Penn Yan, Yates county, on the 8th of April, 1905, at the age of
sixty-five years. He was a son of Alanson J. and Eliza (Cole)
Dunning and his father was one of the pioneers and successful agri-
culturists of Yates county. Hiram 0. Dunning was afforded good
educational advantages in his youth and for a time he was engaged
in teaching in the public schools of his native county. There he
later turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and grape-growing,
and there he continued to reside until 1890, when he located in
Wayne township, Steuben county, where he continued to give his
attention to the supervision of a vineyard until three years prior to
his death, when he removed to the city of Penn Yan, where he lived
virtually retired until he was summoned to the life eternal. His
widow still resides in Penn Yan and is fifty-nine years of age at
the time of this writing, in 1910.

Clarence A. Dunning is indebted to the public schools of his
native county for his early educational discipline, which was sup-
plemented by courses of study in Keuka College and the Eochester
Business Institute. After leaving the latter institution he was em-
ployed for a time by the Bath & Hammondsport Railroad Company
and by the Lake Keuka Navigation Company for a period of five
years, holding the position of assistant auditor and maintaining his
headquarters at Hammondsport, Steuben county. In 1905 he as-
sumed his present position of bookkeeper for the Urbana Wine Com-
pany and he is one of the efficient and valued office executives of this
important corporation. He and his wife hold membership in the
Methodist Episcopal church at Hammondsport, where he is also
affiliated with Hammondsport Lodge, No. 459, Free & Accepted
ilasons, and where his wife holds membership in the Chapter of the

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Order of the Eastern Star. In politics his allegiance is given to the
Eepublican party. In the year 1903 was solemnized the marriage
of Mr. Dunning to Miss Susan C. Casterline, who was born at Bluff
Point, Yates county, on the 15th of September, 1882, and who is a
daughter of John V. and Sarah (Fulkson) Casterline, who now re-
side at Hammondsport, Steuben county, where Mr. Casterline is
living retired after having been for many years identified with the
industry of viticulture. Mr. and Mrs. Dunning have no children.

JoHK N. Fleishman is one of the worthy citizens of Cohocton,
whose change and progress he has witnessed through a residence last;-
ing over fifty years. He is German in nationality, but in the half
century has served his adopted country in both peace and war, having
been among those who took up arms in the cause of the Union. Mr.
Fleishman was born in Germany, April 15, 1835, his parents being
David and Rosine Fleishman. He was only about nineteen years
old when his parents decided to take advantage of the greater oppor-
tunities presented by America, which has been well termed "the land
of promise." Of their five children only two are living, Mr. Fleish-
man and a sister, Mrs. C. Mulhenbacher. Two of these died before
the removal from Germany and one, Godfred, died in 1904 in Co-
hocton.

Mt. Fleishman availed himself of the educational advantages
presented bv the district and worked during his younger years at
various vocations, these being all of an agricultural nature. In
1860 he became an independent land owner by his purchase of his
present farm of eighty acres in Cohocton township. Besides this
estate he owns a house and two lots in Cohocton village, where he
now resides. Mr. Fleishman's enlistment in the cause of the Union
was made in 1863, when he was enrolled as a member of Company
C, Seventy-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry. He was trans-
ferred to Company H, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Volunteer
Infantry, and later to Company F, Ninety-first New York Volunteer
Infantry. He participated in the battle of the Wilderness, the seige
of Petersburg, the battle of Hatch's Eun and other fighting of manor
importance. He served for two years and was honorably discharged
at the close of the war. Mr. Fleishman is a consistent member of
St. Paul's Lutheran church, where for sixteen years he has served
in the capacity of elder. . .

Mr. Fleishman has been twice married, his first union having
been in 1857 with Miss Caroline Mastin. born October 15. 1835,
and she died June 2, 1877. To this marriage were born thirteen
children, twelve of whom grew to maturity. They are as follows.
Eosanna, born February 19, 1859; Odelia, born August 25, 1860;
Joel M., born September 8, 1861; David G., born February 6, 1863;
John G., born June 16, 1864; Jacob L., born April 9, 1866 (de-
ceased) ; Johanna M., bom September 14, 1867; Frederick G. H.,
born September 1, 1869; Mayette. born February 16, 1871; Herman

758 HISTOIIY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

J., born April 30, 1872; Helen C, born March 21, 1874; Caspar N.,
bom May 85, 1875; and George M., born May 32, 1876 (deceased).
The second wife was before her marriage Miss Clara Ahrans, born
in Germany, February 26, 1854. The date of their union was April
9, 1888. Two sons have been born, Frederick W., land Ernest P.

MiLNER Kemp, of Corning, New York, is at the head of the
largest shoe business in Steuben county — the Lester Shoe Store. He
furnishes an example of the self-made man. At the age of twenty-
three, with five dollars in his pocket and a change of clothes in his
grip, he landed on American soil and worked his way to the success
he now enjoys. A sketch of his life is of interest in this connection,
and is as follows:

Milner Kemp was born in England, March 1, 1856, son of John
and Elizabeth (Blackebrongh) Kemp, both natives of Yorkshire,
England, where they passed their lives. John Kemp was born in
1830, the same year in which his wife was born, and both died in
1906. They were the parents of eleven children, two of whom died
in infancy, and the remainder are all living at this writing, six being
residents of England. The father was a shoemaker by trade, which
he followed the greater part of his life. When well advanced in
years he turned his attention to gardening for health, recreation and
business.

In his father's shop Milner Kemp learned the shoemaker's
trade. He remained a member of the home circle until he reached
the age of twenty-two, when he came to America, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, his objective point and where he landed in April, 1879. As
he had only five dollars when he stepped ashore it was necessary for
him to seek work immediately. He worked and traveled through
the southern part of Canada to Toronto, stopping at all the im-
portant towns. Arrived at Toronto he entered the employ of a shoe-
maker by the name of Jackson, on Queen street, with whom he re-
mained three months, at the end of that time, with a companion,
he crossed over to Buffalo, and from there walking to Sterling Eun,
Pennsylvania, the journey requiring five days' time. There he went
to work as section hand on the Philadelphia & Erie Eailroad, and
^ras thus employed six months, afterward working on the construc-
tion of a road. There, on Thanksgiving Day, he married, and the
following Janvxary, 1880, accompanied by his wife, he went to Wil-
liamsport, Pennsylvania; thence, in April, to Waverly, New York.
At the latter place for two years he was in the employ of John
Mahoney, a shoemaker, leaving him. to enter the service of Andrew
Hilderbrand, of the same place, and was with Mr. Hilderbrand for
a period of twelve years, doing custom work and also clerking. In
September, 1894, he began work for the Lester Shoe Company, and
in January, 1895, became a partner in the business and was placed
in charge of a branch store at Owego. They sold out in February,
and in March of the same year Mr. Kemp took charge of a shoe
store owned by the Lester Shoe Company at Coming, while he sub-

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sequently bought a share in the business and in 1903 purchased Mr.
Kenney^s interest, since which time the business has been conducted
under the name of Milner Kemp & Company. In addition to the
Corning store Mr. Kemp, with Mr. Smith, had a branch store at
Horneil, Steuben county, which they sold in 1903, after conducting
it five years.

Mrs. Kemp, formerly Miss Amanda H. Chandler, was born at
Bradford, Pennsylvania, in 1854, daughter of Nathaniel and Cath-
erine Chandler. While Mr. and Mrs. Kemp have no children of
their own they have an adopted daughter, Nora (Kemp) Wetmore,
she being a daughter of Mrs. Kemp's sister, Emma (Chandler)
Weles, who died when Mrs. Wetmore was an infant. This daughtei
was born May 10, 1883, and in 1900 became the wife of Irving
Wetmore, of Wellsborough, then an employe of the New York Cen-
tral Eailroad Company and now associated with Mr. Kemp in the
shoe business. Mr. and Mrs. Wetmore have two children: Victor
Milner Wetmore, born in August, 1901, and Ellen, February 2, 1903.

Since he became a resident of this country Mr. Kemp has fre-
quently visited his parents and brothers and sisters in the old home,
having made fifteen difOerent trips to England for that purpose.
He belongs to the Sons of St. George, an English organization, of
which he is grand trustee for the New York state organization. Also
he is an Odd Fellow and a Mason, having reached the thirty-second
degree in Masonry, and maintaining membership in the Corning
Council and Chapter and in the Mystic Shrine of Elmira. In his
political views he is what may be termed an Independent ; religiously
he is a Baptist.

Henhy F. Camfield has borne to the full the "heat and burden
of the day" and has marked the passing years with worthy and defi-
nite accomplishment. Mr. Camfield is now running a paper route
and sells all the popular daily papers. He is well known in Steuben
county and here has a strong hold upon the confidence and good will
of the community. A considerable part of his life has been passed
in this county, with whose annals the name has been identified for
more than half a century.

Henry F. Camfield was born in Urbana township, this county,
on the 1st of January, 1853, and thus became a right welcome New
Year's guest in the home of his parents, Eben and Mary Ann (Mills)
Camfield. His father was born in Vermont, where he was reared
and educated, and he was a scion of a family that was founded in
New England in the colonial days. In 184.8 he came to Steuben
county and located in the village of Bristol, where he was engaged
in the work of his trade, that of cooper, for the ensuing two years.
Thereafter he was engaged in farming near Mount Washington for
one year, at the expiration of which he located on a farm m Poul-
teney township. After his marriage he continued to be identified
with farm work and other lines of manual labor and eventually he
took up his residence in Howard. At the inception of the Civil

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war he tendered his services in defense of the Union, having enlisted
as a member of an Ohio regiment, and he sacrificed his life in the
cause, as he was killed in the battle of Fair Oaks. His wife was
bom in Seneca county. New York, and she long survived him, as
she was summoned to the life eternal in 1897, at the venerable age
of eightj'-two years. She was a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth
(Bulmer) Mills, of Vermont. Eben and Mary Ann (Mills) Cam-
field became the parents of five children, of whom three are de-
ceased, and of the two surviving the subject of this review is the
elder; his brother, Charles B., is a resident of Bath, New York.

Henry F. Camfield was reared to the sturdy discipline of the
farm and his boyhood and youth were passed in Howard, Urbana
township, Steuben county, on the homestead of his maternal grand-
father, who was seventy-four years of age at the time of his
death. He was afforded the advantages of the district schools,
but early began to depend upon his own resources, so that his
education was limited in scope, though he has well overcome the
handicap through the lessons gained in the school of experience.
After the death of his grandfather he was engaged in farming and
railroad work for three years, and in 1873, when twenty years of
age, he went to Hillsdale, Michigan, in which state he was variously
employed during the ensuing thirteen years, at the expiration of
which he secured a position with the Hillsdale Gas Company, with
which he continued to be connected for eleven years. In 1897 Mr.
Camfield returned to Steuben county and engaged in market garden-
ing in Wayland township. Later he was employed for three years
in the factory of the Gunlocke Furniture & Chair Company, in the
village of Wayland, and thereafter he was employed as a mail car-
rier from the postoffice to the D. L. & W. R. R. Since 1900 he has
Bpen engaged in the newspaper business. He was reared in the faith
of .the Baptist church, is a member of the Wayland tent of the
Maccabees of America, and in politics he maintains an independent
attitude.

In the year 1885 Mr. Camfield was united in marriage to Miss
Mary Jane Evans, who was born and reared at Grass Lake, Jack-
son county, Michigan, and who was a daughter of Prank Evans, a
respected citizen of that county. Mrs. Camfield was summoned to
the life eternal in 1890, at the age of thirty years, and the only
fhild, Junius, died at the age of three and one-half years.

J. M. Grbig. — Prominent among the foremost merchants of
Steuben county is J. M. Greig, who is widely and favorably known
as president, treasurer and general manager of the J. M. Greig Com-
pany of Corning. A man of keen foresight and of sterling integrity,
he is a most successful business man, his prosperity being entirely
due to his persevering industry, his quick perception of character
and to his native good sense and his sound business tact and judg-
ment. Coming from a long line of thrifty Scotch ancestry he was
born on the 30th of September, 1853, in bonnie Scotland, and was

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there reared and educated, completing his early studies at a busi-
ness college.

With a keen desire to try the hazard of new fortunes he emi-
grated to America in 1885, and for three and one-half years was in
the employ of the Adam Medrum & Anderson Company of Buffalo,
New York. Having become familiar with the business methods of
this country while there, he then opened a mercantile establishment
in Le Key, Genesee county. New York, where he remained four
years. Locating in Corning in 1891, Mr. Greig stocked a small
building, twenty-one feet by seventy feet, with dry goods, and as a
merchant established such a good trade that he was forced from
time to time to seek more commodious quarters, in the course of the
next fifteen years occupying three different buildings. In 1906 his
business was incorporated under its present name, the J. M. Greig
Company, of which he is the official head, being the president, treas-
urer and general manager. The building occupied by the company
covers twenty-four thousand square feet, is five stories in height, in-
cluding the basement, and is well filled with a. complete and choice
assortment of general merchandise, being the largest and best-
equipped department store between Buffalo and Binghamton.

Mr. Greig, June 13, 1889, married Antoinette Mitchell, a daugh-
ter of Dr. John Mitchell, of Addison, New York, and into their pleas-
ant household two children have been born, Beatrice and Gertrude.
Fraternally Mr. Greig is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member
of Corning Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. 0. E., and of the Knights of
Pythias.

Adsit Bailey, farmer, grape grower and banker, is well known
and highly respected throughout the greater part of Steuben county.
He is a native son of old .Steuben, born at his present home January
8, 1843, a son of David Bailey, of Baileytown, on Geneva Lake, who
died in 1 872, aged sixty-seven years. David Bailey came to Urbana
when he was three years old and the family settled on the present
Adsit Bailey farm. That was in 1808. His father, whose name
also was David, brought his family and their belongings across
Seneca Lake by means cf a raft. A part of its cargo was two horses
and eight sheep. The undertaking must have presented difiiculties,
but it was successful, and that is the test of the sanity of all ven-
tures. Mt. Bailey cleared the land of its timber and improved it
till it was one of' the best farms in his part of the county. David
grew up on the farm, gained an education such as was available to
him and married Subrina Stone, a daughter of Captain Amos Stone,
one of the early pioneers in the town of Urbana. Adsit Bailey has
two sisters living : Elzina is the widow of James Ordway of Hornell ;
Edna is the widow of Douglas Lockwood of Virginia. The father
of these children was an Episcopalian. He was a man of character
and of action^ who thought things and did things, and his children
are brainv and intelligent and efficient.

Adsit Bailey, after he left school in 1861, took up farming and
grape growing on the home farm with his father and mother, and

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has continued the business successfully since the property came to
him. He is a stockholder and director of the Hammondsport Bank,
being at this time vice-president of the board. He is well known as
as active and influential Republican, having attended state conven-
tions of his party as a delegate. He was assessor for the town of
Urbana in 1876-81 and supervisor, 1881-85, and has since filled the
office of highway commissioner.

In 1873 Mr. Bailey man-ied Miss Edna E. Depew, who was
born in 1840, a daughter of Peter and Eleanor (Brundage) Depew.
Mr. Depew was an early settler in the town of Urbana. Mr. and
Mrs. Bailey have no children, but have adopted two — Fanny Depew,
Mrs. Bailey's niece, who lived with them from the time she was five
years old till she married C. L. Drew, a farmer; and Geneva, now
the wife of Daniel Gillette, a farmer in Urbana.

Eu.MUxi) G. Si'i;\ENs. — A native born citizen and a life-long
resident of Stetiben county, Edmund G. Stevens has spent three
score and ten years of his life in Hornell, for upwards of half a
century having been associated with the management of one of its
leading industrial plants. By means of industry, thrift and the
exercise of good judgment he has accumulated a goodly share of this
worlds goods, and is now living retired from business activities, en-
joying the fruits of his many years of toil, at his pleasant home at
94 Maple street. Comino- from English stock, he was born March
?9, 1836, in Bath, Xew York. His father, John Stevens, a native
of England, emigrated to this country when young, locating first at
Bath, Steuben county, Xt'w York, where he lived several years. Com-
ing to Hornell in 1840, he followed his trade of a tailor for a long
time, afterward living retired until his death, at the venerable age
of ninety-two years. He was a man of good education, an especially
good student in history, and while in England was a landholder.
His wife, whose maiden name was Maiy Gill, was born in England
and died in Steuben coiTuty when but sixty-three years old. Of the
four children born of their union but two are living, Anna, the oldest
child, born eightv-three years aeo, and Edmund G., the voungest
child.

Scarce four year!- of age when he came with his parents to
Hornell, Edmund G. Stevens obtained his early education in the
public schools, after which he served an apprenticeship of four years
at the ca-r|'icntcr's trade. On April 1, 1855, he entered what was
then the Morris Smith Planing Mill, but which has since been
merged into the MeConnell Manufacturing Plant, and was there-
after connected with that organization itntil 1909. For many years
he was foreman of the yard, from 1902 until his resignation, how-
ever, being superintendent of its coal office. Resigning the position
January 1, 1909, he was succeeded by his son, E. J. Stevens.

Mr. Stevens married first, July 3, 1857, Clara Palmer. She
died in early womanhood, leaving six children, namely: E. J., born
March 11, i858; Fannie, born October 3, 1861, is the wife of D. F.

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Potter; Anna, born April 10, 1863, married June Oaks; Fred, born
October 5, 1866, is foreman in the McConnell Manufacturing Plant,;
Alvah, born November 33, 1870; and Flora, born November 26, 1873,
is the wife of J. 0. Eeynolds. Mr. Stevens married for his second
wife, January 15, 1882, Alice C. Hemingway, who died October 12,
1895. On November 2-1, 1896, Mr. Stevens married his present
wife, Mary G. Hart, of Ithaca, New York.

Walter E. Hodgman. — Among the successful business men that
Steuben county has contributed to New York city is numbered Mr.
Hodgman, who is incumbent of the office of purchasing agent for
the Otis Elevator Company, with headquarters at 559 West Twenty-
sixth street. He was born at Bath, Steuben county, on the 21st of
May, 1858, and is a son of Lansing D. and Abby C. Hodgman, the
former of whom was born at Stillwater, Saratoga county, this state,
and the latter at Cohocton, in Steuben county. The father became
a resident of Steuben county when a young man and was long and
prominently identified with business interests at Bath. In the public
schools of his native town Walter E. Hodgman secured his early
educational training, and for several years he was engaged in the
hardware business at Bath, where he continued to maintain his
home until 1890, when he disposed of his interests there and re-
moved to New York city, where he entered the employ of the Otis
Elevator Company, one of the most important concerns in this line
of enterprise in the entire comitry. In 1894 he became purchasing
agent for the company, and he has since continued incumbent of this
important office, the manifold details of whose dxities he has dis-
charged with marked discrimination and executive ability. He is
also one of the principal stockholders of the Multiple Woven Hose
& Eubber Company, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and is president
of this corporation, which controls a successful industrial enterprise.
He is aligned as a supporter of the cause of the Eepublican party,
is essentially progressive and public-spirited in his civic attitude and
he is actively identified with the Steuben County Society of New
York city.

In 1897 Mr. Hodgman was united in marriage to Miss Euth
Kellogg of Orange, New Jersey, and they have one son, Whitney C.
The family home is located at Yonkers, Westchester county. New
York.

Joitx B. ]ircBuRXEY. who owns and occupies the old McBurney
homestead at Corning, New York, is a representative of a family
wliose identity with this place dates back over a hundred years.
Great-grandfather Thomas McBurney, the progenitor of the family
in this country, was a Scotch-Irishman. On coming to America he
settled in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, where in 1796 his
son John, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born.
A few vears later they removed to New York and took up their resi-
dence in Steuben county, on a tract of land adjoining the town of

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Corning. And here, more than a century ago, was built the two-
story, frame farmhouse, with its sixteen rooms and half a dozen
fireplaces, which has been kept in a good state of preservation and
which stands to-day as a landmark. Here in 1830 was born James
McBumey, the father of John B. He was a farmer nearly all his
life. When a young man he went west to Illinois, where he married
Miss Lucv Brvant, who was bom in 1823, in Gilbertsville, Otsego
county, New York. When their son John B. was seven years old
they returned to New l^ork and took up their residence at the old
homestead; and here he grew to manhood and has since made his
home. The farm comprises two hundred and ninety-six acres and is
utilized as a dairy farm, the dairy averaging about twenty-five cows,
and the milk all being sold to regular customers in the city.

John B. McBumey married Miss Kose Bryan, who was bom
in Cianajoharie, New York, in 1868, and who is a cousin of the
celebrated William Jennings Bryan. Mrs. McBurney has a brother,
James S. Bryan, who for twelve years was employed as cashier
by the Philadelphia Times, one of the oldest papers published
in the state of Pennsylvania. While Mr. and Mrs. McBurney have
never had any children to enliven the house, they are jovial, hos-
pitable people, and their spacious old home, with its broad hearths
and briffht fires, is the scene of many festivities.

James McBurney, a brother of John B. McBurney, was born in
1857. For twenty-two years he has been engaged in the manufacture
of cigars as a wholesaler, employing eight people in his establish-
ment at Corning, which he himself represents on the road, traveling
and selling his own goods. He married in 1878 Miss Mary A. Gor-
ton, who was born in Corning in 1856, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen Decatur Gorton, who passed their lives on a farm near
Coming. Her father, born in 1814, died in 1885 ; her mother, born
in 1820, died in 1862. To James McBurney and wife were born
four children: Grace, born in 1878, in 1899 married Howard Eyal,
and resides in Corning; Thomas Bryant, born in 1879, died in 1884;
Eaymond Earl, born in 1891; and Marion Lucille, bom in 1893.

Politically the McBurneys affiliate with the Democratic party.
Their religious creed is that of the Presbyterian church, with which
they are identified.

David J. Eoff. — Eesiding in the old homestead place in which
he was born, Mr. EofE is one of the successful grape growers of
Steuben county and one of the valued and popular citizens of Pul-
teney township, where he gives his attention to the fine vineyard of
twenty-five acres that was established by his honored father many
years ago.

David Eoff was born in Pulteney township on the 15 th of May,
1850, and is a son of Elisha and Mary (Moore) EofE, the former
of whom was born in the state of New Jersey and. the latter in Yates
county,. New York. Upon coming to Steuben county, more than half
a centurv ago, Elisha Koff located in Pulteney township, at the foot

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of Keuka Lake, where he secured a tract of land and established his
home. The place became familiarly known as EofE's Landing, as it
is on the shore of the lake. He reclaimed his land to cultivation
and made upon the same excellent improvements of a permanent
order. He finally started a vineyard and eventually he became one
of the successful grape groveers and shippers of this county, whose
reputation in connection with this interesting line of industry is of
the highest order. Upon, his homestead he continued .to reside, one
of the sterling citizens of the county, until his death, which occurred
in 1898. His wife was summoned to the lif^ eternal in 1878 and
both were zealous members of the Presbyterian church. Of their
nine children four sons and two daughters are living.

He whose name initiates this review has well upheld the prestige
of the name that he bears and is a successful representative of the
industry of grape culture in his native county. He was afforded
the advantages of the public schools and early became familiar with
the various duties of the home farm and vineyard^ so that he was
well equipped for the carrying forward of these lines of enterprise
on his own responsibility. After the death of his father he pur-
chased the vineyard of twenty-five acres, and the same is one of the
best in Pulteney township, its location being specially eligible and
great care being taken in keeping the property up to the highest
standard of productivity. He has shown a lively intereist in all that
has touched the civic and material welfare of his home township
and county and in polities he is found aligned as a stanch supporter
of the principles of the Democratic party. Though he has never
been ambitious for official preferment he served for three terms as
assessor of his township, showing much of care and discrimination
in the discharge of the duties of this position. Both he and his
family hold membership in the Presbyterian church in the village
of Pulteney.

In the year 1882 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. EofE to
Miss Alice A. Stryker, who was born and reared in Prattsburg
township, this county, and who is a daughter of the late William
Stryker, an honored citizen of the county. The pleasant home of
Mr. and Mrs. Roff is notable for its generous and gracious hospitality,
and it is pleasing fo record that they have given to their children
the best of educational advantages. Otto, the eldest of the three
children, was graduated in Penn Yan Academy and in the Bliss
Electrical School, of Washington, D. C, and he is now holding a
responsible position as an electrical engineer in the city of Schenec-
tady, New York; Harry V., who was born on the 7th of July, 1889,
and who was graduated in the Kentucky Military Institute and also
in a business college in the city of Rochester, is now employed as
a stenographer in the division freight offices of the New York Cen-
tral & Hudson River Railroad; and Lucile, who was born on the
9th of August, 1892, was graduated in Penn Yan Academy in June,
1910, and is now attending Elmira College at Elmira, New York.

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j\I. E. Lake. — This prominent representative of real estate loan
and insurance interests in Steuben county was born in Fremont,
that county, September 9, 1855. His father was Israel Lake, a
native of Tompkins county, New York, who was an early settler and
a farmer well known in his time and who died aged about seventy-
two years. His wife was Clarissa White, born in New York state, who
passed awav when she was about forty-eight. They had five daugh-
ters and iovLX, sons, all of whom grew to womanhood or manhood,
of whom M. E. Lake was the fifth born.

Mr. Lake spent the days of his childhood and boyhood on his
his father's farm and in the common school in his native town. He
made a start in life for himself at the early age of eighteen and
farmed in Fremont till 1880. Then he went to Canisteo and was
clerk in a hotel there under three successive managements. Then he
put in seven years as a farmer near there. Eeturning to that village
he was engaged in merchandising there until 1896, when, still mak-
ing Canisteo his headquarters, he began buying and selling farms.
To this business he devoted himself profitably about four years,
meanwhile having in hand some other interests, among them a
bakery and grocery in Canisteo. In 1901 he still had a farm in
operation near there. In 1906 he opened a real estate, loan and m-
surance office in Hornell and has prospered as a business man and
financier. Some time since he sold his farm near Canisteo.

In 1884 Mr. Lake married Miss Addie Curtis, daughter of John
and Catharine Curtis, old residents in Steuben county. She was
born at Canisteo and was well known and popular there. She has
borne her husband two daughters— Catharine, wife of Frederick
Hull of Canisteo, and Lorena, who was twelve years old in 1910.
Mr. Lake is a Eepublican and as such has wielded a recognized
political influence. He very ably filled for one term the rather
exacting office of justice of the peace. He is an Odd Fellow and a
past grand of his lodge.

James 0. SbIshing. — A commanding figure in the professional
and business life of Corning, James 0. Sebring has won fame and
distinction as a skillful and able lawyer, and as a man of financial
and managerial ability has acquired considerable property, and has
become identified with several of the large manufacturing industries
of Steuben county. He was born November 4, 1860, in Pulteney,
Steuben countv, which was also the birthplace of his father, Charles
W. Sebring. His grandfather. Daniel Sebring, a native of Schuyler
county. New York, was an early pioneer of Steuben county, taking
up wild land and clearing and "improving a homestead in Pulteney.

Brought up on the home farm, Charles W. Sebring succeeded
to the occupation of his German ancestors, and spent his entire life
in Pultenev and Prattsburg. He died recently. He married Cath-
erine A. Miller, who was bom in Putnam county. New York, of
substantial New England stock, her ancestors having come to this
state from Connecticut in pioneer days. Her father, Thaddeus A.

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ililler, came with his family from Putnam county to Steuben county
about 1836, making the removal with an ox-team. Taking up land
bordering on Keuka Lake, he cleared and improved a good farm,
and there spent his remaining years. Mrs. Charles W. Sebring died
on the home farm in Pulteney in 1909, aged seventy-seven years.
To her and her husband four children were born, as follows: Frank
A., wife of Willard Wallis, of Prattsburg, Steuben county; John C,
engaged in farming in the town of Wayne, Steuben county; James
0., the special subject of this brief sketch; and Burt, of Corning.

Completing his education in the district schools of Pulteney
and the Franklin Academy at Prattsburg James 0. Sebring remained
with his parents until attaining his majority. Starting then in life
for himself he taught school during the winter terms for several
years, working as a farm laborer during seed time and harvest.
While thus employed he began reading law in the office of J. K.
Smith, of Prattsburg, afterwards continuing his reading with Hon.
I. W. Xear, completing his studies under the instruction of John F.
Little, of Bath. Being admitted to the bar in June, 1885, Mr.
Sebring began the practice of his chosen profession in the autumn
of that year at Hammondsport, where he met with fine success, re-
maining there ten years.

la 1895 Mr. Sebring located in Corning, and has since built up
an extensive and exceedingly remunerative law practice. In Febru-
ary, 1902, he formed a partnership with Warren J. Cheney, under
the firm name of Sebring & Cheney, which is one of the strongest
law firms in Steuben county. Mr. Sebring is a large real estate
owner, among his other holdings of value being Sebring Park, which
contains one hundred and twenty acres of land adjoining Corning.

On August 29, 1889, Mr. Sebring was united in marriage with
ilary A. Busbnell, a daughter of the late Watts Bushnell and Har-
riet (Wheeler) Bushnell, of Kenona, New York. In politics Mr.
Sebring is a Democrat, and is now serving as city attorney for
Corning.

Joi-ix B. K. C-VMEKON^ a prominent agriculturist and grape-
grower in Steuben county, also controls a large trade in the meat
business in Urbana. He was born at Hammondsport, this county,
December '27, 1852, and is a son of Dugald Cameron, a native of
Scotland, his birthplace being Glasgow and the year 1817. Dugald
Cameron emigrated to the United States in 1817, in company with
his parents, and he was summoned to the life eternal in Steuben
county in 1893. The Camerons first settled at Bath, whence they
removed to Hornellsville, where they became known as farmers and
lumbermen. The grandfather of him whose name initiates this re-
view, Dugald Cameron, at one time owned as much as two thousand
acres of land in and adjacent to Hornellsville. The maiden name of
his wife was Ann Taylor. Grandfather Cameron was a linen weaver
by trade and Grandmother Cameron was a lace maker.

After due preliminary education Dugald Cameron, father of
John B. R., went, at the age of nineteen years, to Hammondsport

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and there found employment as a clerk in the establishment of A. M.
Adsitj an old-time concern of considerable prominence. Eegularly
for twenty-one years this firm sent Mr. Cameron to New York city
to attend to business connected with transportation. During that
period he became part owner of the old "Navigation Company,"
then the firm of Adsit & Eice. Associated with him in this enter-
prise was John W. Davis. In 1860 Mr. Cameron turned his at-
tention to farming on one hu^ndred and sixteen acres of land near
Hammondsport and eventually he began to specialize in grape-grow-
ing. He was one of the original stockholders in the Pleasant Valley
Wine Company and was connected with this concern for a number
of years. His religious belief coincided with the teachings of the
Protestant Episcopal church and he was an influential factor in the
religious life of the community. A Republican in politics, he was
active and efficient as a worker for the success of his party and the
furtherance of its principles. Incidentally, as they came to him,
not as he sought them, he held many offices. He was tax collector
and town auditor at different times and was long a deputy sheriff.
His public spirit made him a useful citizen, helpful to all worthy
local interests. As a citizen he was alert for the advancement of his
town and the prosperity of his neighbors. He was ever held in high
esteem by his fellow men and he was a man of good judgment and
fine mental caliber. He married Miss Rachel Brundage, a daughter
of John and Rachel (Conger) Brundage, farmers of Urbana. She
passed away in 1895, at the venerable age of seventy-six years. Of
their children two now survive: John B. R., of this review, and
Azubah, who is the widow of S. S. Smith, of Joliet, Illinois.

John B. R. Cameron was reared and educated in this county
and he continued to be associated with his father in the work and
management of his farm until the latter's death. Then he relieved
his mother of all care relative to the conduct of the business during
the remainder of her life and eventually he inherited the property
and he has since continued its management on his own account.
Besides diversified agriculture he is extensively engaged in the grape-
growing industry and since 1906 he has conducted a meat market
at Urbana. He is a useful and popular citizen, publie-spiritedly de-
voted to the general good and identified with many important in-
stitutions. He is a devout member of the Episcopal church and is
affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men and the Grange, in
addition to which he is also a member of the Hammondsport Hook
and Ladder Company. Though not an active politician, his political
views are in harmony with the principles and policies of the Re-
publican party and he has ever contributed in liberal measure to all
matters projected for the general welfare.

In 1890 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cameron to Miss
Nellie L. Carr, who was born at Hammondsport April 26, 1860,
and who is a daughter of Alfred and Elizabeth (Coon) Carr, long
prominent citizens in Steuben county. William and Mary (Lati-
more) Carr, great-great-grandparents of ]\Trs. Cameron, emigrated to

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America about 1705 from Londonderry, Ireland. They were Scotch-
Irish Presbyterians and William Carr was a blacksmith by trade.
Tradition has it that Mary (Latimore) Carr was a descendant of
Bishop Latturin, the early English martyr. Their son, John Carr,
married Amy Armstrong and he was a farmer and a valiant soldier
in the war of the Eevolution, serving in the Fourth regiment of the
Orange County Militia. Amy Armstrong was the descendant of a
Scottish chief, concerning whom the following legend is written:
In combat to prove the superiority of his elan. Chieftain Armstrong
encountered the chieftain of another clan and killed his adversary.
The next day he met the chosen one from a second clan and was
again victorious, killing his man. The third day a similar meeting oc-
curred, but this time Chieftain Armstrong was less fortunate and
tradition has it that he returned to his camp dead, sitting in his
saddle. The next in line of direct descent to Mrs. Cameron was
John Carr, who wedded Sarah Hutches. He was born in 1775 and
was a soap and candle maker. He lived at Pine Island, Orange
county. New York, and came to Hammondsport about 1825, his
death having occurred at that place about 1850. He had sons, Aus-
tin, Lansing, Vincent, John, Alfred, Jackson and Morris, the latter
remaining in Orange county, — and daughters, — Mary, Elizabeth and
Almeda. Alfred Carr married Elizabeth Coon and they became the
parents of Nellie L. Cameron, wife of the subject of this review,
as previously noted. Alfred Carr was born in Orange county. New
York, November 6, 1825, and he died January 2, 1882. His wife
was born at Pulteney, New York, September 11, 1823, and she
passed away February 17, 1862. They had seven children, Mrs.
Cameron being one of twins. Her twin sister is now the wife of
S. A. Eroding, of Rochester, and her sister, Mary Carr, resides in
the Cameron home. Mrs. Cameron was an expert stenographer prior
to her marriage to Mr. Cameron.

Amos B. Straight, M. D., who was formerly in the ministry
of the Methodist Episcopal church, is widely known as a gentleman
of versatile ability. He was born in the town of Burns, Allegany
county, New York, on the 4th of February, 1866. Elijah Abbott
Straight, his father, was a native of Avoca township, Steuben coun-
ty, where he was born on the 31st of October, 1833. From 1867 to
the time of his death, which occurred on the 19th of July, 1894, he
was a resident of Burns, Steuben county. New York. Dexter
Straight, father of Elijah Abbott Straight and grandfather of Dr.
Amos B. Straight, was born in Haskinsville, this county, in 1806,
and he was summoned to the life eternal October 25, 1855. His
father, Elijah Straight, was born in 1776 and died in 1847. He
was a pioneer in Steuben county in the days of really primitive
things, a friend of education and one of the promoters and builders
of the first schoolhouse in the vicinity of his early home. He was
twice married, his first union having been prolific of five sons and
one daughter, namely — Dexter, John B., Augustus Elijah, Cyrus,

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Albert and Maria. Eor his second wife he married Mrs. Polly
Abbott, who was the widow of Elijah Abbott and who had three
daughters— Hannah, Betsy and Lucinda. Dexter Straight, the Doe-
tor's grandfather, married Betsy, daughter of his step-mother, thus
making the unique history of a son marrying the daughter of his
fathers wife. Elijah Abbott Straight, father of the Doctor, mar-
ried Eunice Jane Burdick, who was born at Almond, Allegany coun-
ty, Aew York, September 18, 1835, and who passed away m Hornell,
New York, October 31, 1909. Her father, Bradford Burdick, was
a native of Vermont and an early settler in Allegany county. Their
wedding was celebrated at Almond November 14, 1860, and to this
union were born five children, two of whom, Bradford and Bur-
dick, died in infancy. Their only daughter, Libby Kate, was born
on the loth of February, 1861, and she died August 18, 1890. Olin
Leroy, who was born November 6, 1862, is now a resident of Almond,
New York, and Amos B. is the immediate subject of this review.

Dr. Straight was the fourth in order of birth of the above named
children and he was about one year of age at the time of his parents'
removal over the border line from Allegany into Steuben county, to
whose public schools he is indebted for his preliminary educational
discipline. After attaining to years of responsibilty he taught school
for two years, at the expiration of which he entered the medical office
of Dr. J. E. Walker at Arkport, under whose able preceptorship he
made rapid progress in the absorption and assimilation of the science
of medicine. In the spring of 1891 he was graduated in the College
of Physicians & Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, duly receiving
his degree of Doctor of jMedicine, and for one year succeeding his
graduation he was engaged in practice with his former preceptor.
Dr. "Walker. Thereafter he entered upon an independent practice
• at Silver Springs, New York, where was solemnized his marriage
and where he resided for three years, after which he removed to
Perry, New York, where for seven years he was engaged in a pro-
fessional way, controlling a large and lucrative patronage and gain-
ing prestige as one of the ablest practitioners in that section.

While living at Perry Dr. Straight felt that he was called to the
Christian ministry and in 1899 he was appointed pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Hamlin, Monroe county, this state.
One year's work there was crowned with success, his church having
the distinction that year of adding more members to its roll than
any other church in the Niagara district of the Genesee conference.
The following year he was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Canaseraga, Allegany county. New York. He
was then appointed to Spencer Methodist Episcopal church, Hornell,
New York. After having been pastor of that church for two years
he was appointed to the pastorate of the Methodist Episcopal church
at Corning, this county, and a large addition to the membership
and great financial gain to the church was the result of his labors
there. Two years after that appointment impaired health com-
pelled him unwillingly to relinquish platform work. After a post-

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graduate course and hospital work in New York city during the
winter of 1905 Dr. Straight located the following spring at Hornell
as a practicing physician.

On the 2.3d of December, 1892, was solemnized the marriage
of Dr. Straight to Miss Eva Eliza Pryor, who is a daughter of
George Pryor. Her paternal grandfather was Sylvester Pryor, who
traced his ancestry back to stanch English extraction. He was an
early settler in Allegany county, where he lived to the venerable age
of eighty years. Sylvester Pryor married Olive Brockway, and they
became the parents of four boys — Alden, George, Jesse and Luther^
and two girls— Mary and Eleanor. George, father of Mrs. Straight,
was born in Almond, New York, July 25, 1837, and died at Ark-
port, New York, June 24, 1877. Mrs. Straight's maternal grand-
father was William C. Ward, who was born in the state of Ohio,
whence he came to Allegany county, New York, where he lived to
the age of seventy-seven years. He married Eachel Head, who
passed away at the age of seventy-two years. Mr. and Mrs. William
C. AVard had twelve children, five boys and seven girls, namely:
Samuel, Ashabel, Otis, Seymour, George, Electia, Mary, Elizabeth,
Eliza, Maria, Helen and Harriett. Mary Ward, who married George
Pryor, was born on the 27th of February, 1838, in the town of
Almond, New York, and she became the mother of five children —
three girls and two boys — Ella, Eosetta, Eva Eliza, Frank and Will-
iam Sylvester. Eva Eliza was born in Almond, New York, Mav
25, 1872, and she was afforded excellent educational advantages in
her youth. Dr. and JNIrs. Straight have three children: Katie Nat-
alie, who was born at Silver Springs, Wyoming county. New York,
on the 16th of December, 1893 ; Erie Abbott, born at Perry, Wyom-
ing county, New York, June 9, 1896; and Thomas Benjamin Neely,
born at Corning, Steuben countv, New York, on the 5th of October,
1904.

In politics Dr. Straight is aligned as a stalwart supporter of
the principles and policies for which the Prohibition party stands
sponsor, and in 1904 he received the nomination for member of
assembly from the thirty-third district. He has done much to ad-
vance the general welfare of the community. He is affiliated with
various professional and fraternal organizations of representative
character, and no citizen in Steuben county is held in higher con-
fidence and esteem than is the Doctor. He has been described as
"a broad-minded man, an earnest student, a deep thinker and an
eloquent and convincing speaker." His success as a medical man
gives him eminence among his fellow-practitioners. His office and
residence are on the corner of Seneca and West Genesee streets, in
the old William O'Connor residence, which he bought in August,
1906. This is one of the best locations in Hornell, and the property
is one of the finest residence properties in the city. Dr. Straight
in his professional service has been prompted by a laudable ambi-
tion for advancement as well as by deep sympathy and humani-
tarian principles that urge him to put forth his best efforts in the

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alleviation of pain and suffering. He has gained recognition from
the profession as one of its able representatives, and the triist reposed
in him by the public is indicated by the liberal patronage awarded
him.

James J. O'Hara, chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Corn-
ing, New York, is a Canadian by birth and comes of Irish parents.
His father, Patrick O'Hara, was born at Temple House, County
Sligo, Ireland, in 1830, and is still living; his mother, Elishie
(Burk) O'Hara, born in Ireland in 1836, died in 1870. They left
Ireland soon after their marriage and directed their course to Can-
ada, Hullet their objective point, where they spent twelve years,
at the end of that time coming to Steuben county. New York. Of
the children born to them, now married and scattered, we record
that Mary (O'Hara) Baxter lives in Corning, New York; Mar-
garet (O'Hara) Noke is a resident of Brooklyn, New York; James
J., the subject of this sketch, was next in order of birth; Martin
resides in Michigan, and Julia, at Brooklyn, New York. At the
age of twenty-one Patrick O'Hara joined the police force in Ireland,
with which he was connected for three years or until his departure
for America. Upon his arrival at Hullet, Canada, he went to work
as a farm laborer, and was thus occupied there for a period of
twelve years. Then he came over into New York state and at Addi-
son, Steuben county, spent another year in farm work. Next he
moved to Gang Mills in the same county and turned his attention
to the lumber business, as an employe of Fox Weston & Company,
with whom he remained until the mill closed its business in 1880.
From 1880 to 1887 he was in the employ of the same company in
ilichigan, and the latter year he returned to Steuben county and
settled at Corning, where he went to work for the Corning Glass
Works. At intervals, now at a ripe old age, he still works for this
concern.

James J. O'Hara was born July 25, 1862, at Hullet, Canada,
and in his boyhood accompanied his parents to New York. At the
early age of twelve years he began doing chores nights and morn-
ings while he went to school, and thus spent his time for four years.
Then he went to Michigan, where for three years he worked in a mill
during the summer months, and in the winter in the lumber camps.
Coming back to Steuben county with his father, he entered the
Corning Glass Works, where he thoroughly learned the glass busi-
ness and where he remained until about the age of thirty years.
Following this service he was variously employed until 1894, when
he accepted a position as salesman in the shoe store of J. L. Clark,
where he still remains.

For more than twenty years Mr. O'Hara belonged to Coming's
volunteer fire department, and he is now an exempt fireman. Po-
litically he is a Democrat. In 1904 he was elected a supervisor, has
been re-elected three times, and is now chairman of the board. He
belongs to the Elks and to the Knights of Columbus.

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In 1894 Mr. O'Hara married Miss Josephine Leary, daughter
of Patriclc Leary, of Painted Post, New York, and the children given
to them are as follows: James, born July 6, 1899; Frances, De-
cember 25, 1901 ; John, May 33, 1903, and Helen, April 32, 1906.

Myeon C. Sherman. — This man, well and favorably known
in northern Steuben county, an extensive handler of grain and
produce, was born in Prattsburg, Steuben county. New York, August
16, 1875, a son of William and Sarah (Lamphere) Sherman. He
was reared and educated among the people with whom he now does
business, and among his many patrons none are more loyal than are
some of his old schoolmates. Soon after leaving school he became
connected with the produce business, buying and selling on his own
account or otherwise, as conditions were from time to time. He is
now the manager of the Seofield-ilcMichael Produce Company, of
Prattsburg, K(j\v York, which handles hay, grain and produce on
an extensive scale. His relations with the farmers round about him
have been long and to them eminently satisfactory, and he is getting
the gilt edged business of Prattsburg and vicinity in his line.

Mr. Sherman married Miss Edna Moore, of Prattsburg, New-
York, and she has borne him three children — Esther, aged nine
years ; Francis, aged seven years ; and Edna, aged six years.

Politically ilr. Sherman is a Republican, zealous for the suc-
cess of the principles and men of his party; but he is not in the
ordinary sense a politician. At the same time he is a discriminating
voter aiad has the reputation of being a man of public, spirit who
has the welfare of the community at heart and may be depended on
to do everything within his means and ability to further any move-
ment for the common good.

H. B. SiiiTH, M. D. — Devoting his time and energies to the
practice of his chosen profession, H. B. Smith, M. D., of Corning,
has gained a position of note, being widely known throughout this
section of Steuben county as one of its most able and successful
physicians. He was born July 27, 1876, in New Brunswick, New
Jersey, a son of B. F. and Fannie E. (Ryno) Smith, natives also
of New Jersev.

Completing his early studies in the public schools of New
Jersey, H. B. Smith began the study of medicine in 1896, and in
1899 was graduated from the medical department of the New
York University in New York city, receiving the degree of M. D.
After serving in Bellevue Hospital for about one year he came to
Corning. He has met with eminent success in his professional
career and has built up a remunerative patronage, his knowledge
and skill gaining for him the confidence and respect, of the people.

The Doctor belongs to numerous organizations of a professional
nature, including the Coming Medical Association, the Steuben
County Medical Association, the New York State Medical Asso-
ciation and the American Medical Association. Fraternally he is

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a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to the consistory, and he
is also an Odd Fellow. He is a stanch Eepublican in his political
affiliations and is now serving as county coroner.

Dr. Smith married, June 26, 1900, Nora Thomas, and they
have one daughter, Marianne Smith.

Ernest J. Guttinger. — The gentleman whose name heads this
notice has perhaps had more to do with the development of the silk
industry in southern and central New York than any other one
man. The history of that industry is so interesting that the little
that Mr. Guttinger's modesty permits us to put on record here will
be hailed by the average reader as especially edifying material. Mr.
Guttinger, like so many experts in our various industries, is of
European birth. He first saw the light of day in Lyons, France,
June 2, 1880, and was there given a liberal education. When he was
nineteen he went to Germany and other silk manufacturing centers
and by practical experience acquired expert knowledge of silk mak-
ing. In 1900 he came to the United States and put in operation for
a French company a silk mill at Hazleton, Pennsylvania. From
there he went to Hoboken, New Jersey, where he identified himself
with the enterprise of the Schwarzenbach-Huber Company, the larg-
est operators of silk mills in the world. In 1904 he started a silk
mill at Andover, AUeganj' county. From there he came to Hornell
in 1906. Until September of that year he was foreman in the weav-
ing mills, and then he took charge of the entire mill. This business
is operated by the Canisteo Silk Company in connection with other
mills at Wayland, all of which are now in charge of Mr. Guttinger.
In these various establishments about four hundred people are em-
ployed. Their notable success is due in no small measure to the
skill and business ability of Mr. Guttinger.

In 1908 Mr. Guttinger married Miss Nina E. Laughlin. They
have a son named Jack. Mr. Guttinger is a progressive, up-to-date,
public spirited man who takes an interest in the communities with
which his business has made him acquainted and may be depended
on to do whatever he can to aid their growth and prosperity.

RuFus C. Baldwin. — This popular and successful farmer and
commercial traveler is a native of Addison and was born February
8, 1857. James Baldwin, his father, was born at Lawrenceville,
Tioga county, Pennsylvania, and was brought to Addison when he
was about four years old by his parents, Eufus and Parmelia (Wom-
baugh) Baldwin. Kiifus Baldwin, born in Connecticut, was a soldier,
serving the patriot cause in the Revolutionary war, as was Isaac
Baldwin, his father. This family of Baldwins is descended from
Henry Baldwin, who emigrated from Buckinghamshire, England,
in 1627 and settled at Woburn, Massachusetts. His grandson, Isaac
Baldwin, Sr., removed with his family from Norwalk, Connecticut,
to the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, whence they were driven by
border wars to a more peaceable part of Pennsylvania north and west.

HISTOKY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 781

In 1787 they settled on the Chemung river, then in Tioga county,
New York. Isaac Baldwin, St., was born at Norwich, Connecticut,
in June, 1730, and married Patience Eathbun in November, 1751.
They had eleven children, of whom Eufus Baldwin, great-grand-
father of Eufus C. Baldwin, was one. Eufus Baldwin, Jr., his son,
was born in Canterbury, Windham county, Connecticut, in 1795.
In December, 1812, he became connected with the Light Guards, in
which he soon rose to the rank of major. In 1825 he removed to
Lawrenceville in Tioga county, Pennsylvania. He married Parmelia
Wombaugh, daughter of William Wombaugh, of Addison, New York.
In 1838, having disposed of his Pennsylvania property, he settled
a mile east of Addison, on a tract of six hundred acres of farming
and timber land that he had bought.

In 1851 Eufus Baldwin, Jr., retiring from active life, moved
into the village of Addison, where he died June 10, 1854. Ten years
later his widow passed away. The following suggestive items of
information concerning their children will be of interest in this
connection. One of his daughters married Eufus N. Weatherby.
William W., who became a lawyer, died in 1852. Walter H. died
in 1854. Henry, a lawyer, financier and banker, was supervisor of
Addison township from 1859 to 1861 and sheriff of Steuben county
from 1886 to 1889. In 1861 he recruited Company E, Thirty-
fourth Eegiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, was elected its
captain, saw service in the Shenondoah Valley, at Yorktown, at
West Point, at Fair Oaks, at Seven Pines, in McClellan's seven days'
retreat to the Potomac, at Antietam, at Fredericksburg and else-
where, and came out of the Civil war with high honor as a soldier
and as an officer. In 1867 he was brevetted major; in 1868, colonel.
Eufus, the next son in order of nativity, died young. Parmelia
married the Hon. Byron G. Stout, of Pontiac, Michigan. E. Haskell
died in childhood. James, father of Eufus C, was born at Law-
renceville, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, in 1834, and was brought to
Addison by his parents when four years old. There he was reared,
acquiring his primary education in the village school. After hav-
ing taken a preparatory course at the old Addison Academy he fin-
ished his education at a historic old time college at Lima, New York,
which was in its day a boon to western New York.

In 1855 Mr. Baldwin married Miss Emma L. Cowley, a daugh-
ter of Calvin and Phila (Eathbun) Cowley, and located on what is
known as the Woollenmill farm, near Addison. In the spring of
1857 he removed to Woodhull, where he built the first steam mill
in that part of the county. In 1866 he came back to Addison and
during the remainder of his life was one of the leading men of that
town. From that time, indeed, dates that larger, broader history
which identifies him with county and state affairs. He was an
ardent and outspoken temperance man, and in 1884 was a nominee
for congress on the Prohibition ticket. He also ran for the office
of treasurer of the state as a nominee of the Prohibition party. In
business circles he was active and prominent, as proprietor of the

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Baldwin bank and in connection, direct or indirect, with many im-
portant interests. As a member of the Presbyterian church he was
generously identified with the religious movement in the village.
He died January 6, 1903. Of his three sons two died in infancy,
Eufus C. Baldwin being the only survivor.

Rufus C. Baldwin was educated at the Addison academy, De
Veaux College, Niagara Palls, New York; Williston Seminary, East
Hampton, Massachusetts, and at a commercial college at Eochester,
New York, where he finished with a business course. From 1880
to 1885 he was in the furniture and undertaking business. After
living at Bath three years as under sheriff of Steuben county he re-
turned to Addison in 1889 and soon located on a farm two miles
west of the village, where he lived till April 1, 1896. In the year
last mentioned he accepted a position as a commercial traveler, which
he has filled with much ability ever since, maintaining his residence
in Addison. On June 18, 1879, he married Miss Celestia M. Smith,
of Addison.

Mr. Baldwin is a member of the Steuben Society of New Y'ork
city, the City Club of Corning and the Steuben Club of Bath. He
was a charter member of the Baldwin Hook and Ladder company
of Addison. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, identified with
Addison Lodge of the F. & A. M., the chapter at Addison, the Con-
sistory at Corniug and St. Omar's Commandery of Elmira. Of
his Blue Lodge he is a past master. He is identified also with the
local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the
Corning organization of the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks.

Official and commercial life have not stifled Mr. Baldwin's love
of the soil. He has not lost his interest in agriculture, owning, as
he does, a fine farm of two hundred and fifty acres near Addison.
There is no one who takes a deeper or more abiding interest in the
affairs of the village, township, county and state than does ilr.
Baldwin. Especially is he interested in the growth and prosperity
of Addison, one of the most solid and progressive of the minor trade
and manufacturing centers of Steuben county. To no appeal look-
ing to its advancement does he turn a deaf ear.

Phin. Gould, known far and near in the athletic world as a
champion wrestler, and for the past few years proprietor of a bil-
liard and pool business at Corning, New York, is a native of this
state, born in Chemung county, December 17, 1881. Mr. Gould's
parents, William M. and Ella B (Smith) Gould, were born in 1851
and 1853, respectively, and were married in 1876. They have one
other child, a daughter, Mrs. Elvira (Gould) Adsit, born April 11,
1884, and both their son and daughter were educated at Horseheads,
Steuben county. By trade William M. Gould is a carpenter and
joiner, which he has followed all his life, at times also doing con-
tract work.

At the early age of fifteen Phin. Gould began life on his own
responsibility, working as a glass blower in the Corning Glass

HISTORY OF STEUBEiSr COUNTY 783

Works, and this business he followed until 1904, when he opened
up the billiard and pool business he has since successfully conducted.
From boyhood athletic sports had a great fascination for him, and
when quite young he became locally famous as a bicycle rider. He
was the winner in all the long-distance bicycle contests within a
radius of seventy-five miles of Corning. In 1903 he began public
wrestling on the mat, catch as catch can, and during the years of
his public wrestling has met and defeated such men as Mitchell, of
Elmira ; jMiles, of Buffalo ; Curley, of Auburn ; Al Swanson, for-
merly of Sycamore, . and George Bothner, champion lightweight of
the world and holder of the Police Gazette silver belt. Mr. Gould
defeated George Bothner in two hours and forty minutes, with two
falls. Also he defeated Hanson of Norwich, who had had seventeen
years' experience, twelve years being in the old country ; and he
wrestled with Eugene Trembalaj^, of Montreal, in a match at Elmira,
New York. ]Mr. Trembalay posted in the Police Gazette that he
would wrestle any man in the United States for one thousand dol-
lars and that he could beat any man at one hundred and forty-five
pounds. j\Ir. Gould's weight is from one hundred and thirty-five to
one hundred and forty and his height five feet and nine inches.
He met Mr. Trembalay, and for two hours and five minutes wrestled
with him, without a fall, at the end of which time it was called
a draw and they were stopped by the police on account of dark-
ness. This was the only drawback Mr. Gould ever had. Also he
defeated Bradstreet at Hornell in an hour and fifteen minutes, and
two falls. Bradstreet weighed one himdred and sixty-eight pounds.
;Mr. Gould has offered a challenge to any lightweight wrestler for
the world's championship.

' His billiard rooms are the finest in Corning, and he has hosts
of friends, being a Mason of high degree and a member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Mrs. Saeah A. Sjiith is well known for her many good quali-
ties of mind and heart throughout northern Steuben county, and
her late husband is remembered as an upright man and a fine citizen
who achieved success in life because he deserved to. She was born
in Benton Centre, Yates county. New York, August 9, 1854, a
daughter of Jacob H. and Sabra (Mattiee) Ouderkirk, both natives
of ]\iiddleburg, Schoharie county. New York. Mr. and Mrs. Ouder-
kirk came to Steuben countv in 1865 and lived on a farm m the
town of Cohocton, where the" mother died in 1903 and the father in
September, 1906. There Mrs. Smith was reared, under the careful
oversight of a good father and mother. She gained her primary
education in the public school near the home of her girlhood days,
then became a student in the high school at Elmira, Chemung
county. Returning home, she was a member of her father's house-
hold itill she married.

:\riss Ouderkirk was married to A. E. Smith m 1877. Mr.
Smith was born on the farm on which his widow now lives m the

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year 1854, a son of Artemas and Sarah (Williams) Smith. Artemas
Smith was a son of Elihu B. Smith, who came to this part of Steu-
ben county among the early settlers. His parents were pioneers here
in 1815. He was born in 1806 and was, consequently, nine years
old when they came. They located on the farm which afterward
came down to the late A. E. Smith. There Mr. Smith was born,
reared and lived his busy and useful life. He was educated in the
common schools and in a school at Havana and was for a time a
successful and popular teacher. He was a member of the order of
A. K. 0. T. M. and a member of the Presbyterian church. He
lived on his farm of one hundred and sixty-five acres the life of a
man who is sowing well and expecting to reap well — the life of an
honest. God-fearing man who loves his fellow-men and never extends
a hand to them but the open hand of friendship. His sympathy for
the troubled and the afflicted was unbounded. Many a man found
in him the friend in need who is truly the friend indeed. He had
a kind and encouraging word for all, a generous helpfulness for any
who stood in need of it. His house was the home of guests, his
table was spread for all who might come. Eegardless of any ques-
tion of personal relations, the visitor was welcomed at the door, fed
and entertained or aided as the case might demand and sent on his
way with a hearty "God-speed" that made burdens lighter for days
and days. In all these good works Mrs. Smith loyally aided him.
Her ideas of our duty toward our fellow-men and women do not
differ materially from his, and so far as she can she orders her
attitude toward humanity in general as she knows he instinctively
ordered his. Her charity is well known, and no one needing a true
friend ever appeals to her in vain. She is a good business woman,
and the farm under her management is not falling back by any
means. She is known as a woman of rare intelligence and of more
than average attainments and all who know her are proud to call
her "friend."

Hugh H. Kendall. — Prominent among the leading citizens and
foremost btisiness men of Corning, Hugh H. Kendall is officially
associated with one of the more important industries of Steuben
county, being president of the C. E. Maltby Company, of Corning.
A son of Amaziah Sheffield Kendall, he was born November 30, 1859,
in Jasper, 'New York, coming from honored New England stock.

Amaziah S. Kendall was born in Massachusetts, and when a
child came with his parents to New York, locating in iladison
county, where a short time later his father died at about the age
of thirty. His mother married a second husband and lived to be
one hundred years old. Not fvilly agreeing with his step-father on
many points, Amaziah S. Kendall left home when a boy of ten
years and began the battle for himself, working on a farm in Livings-
ton county. In the meantime he continued his studies and subse-
quently taught school several terms in Jasper, Steuben county. AVhile
thus engaged he read law and after his admission to the bar formed

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a partnership with Hon. George B. Bradley, for over thirty years
being junior member of the law firm of Bradley & Kendall. He
continued the practice alone when Mr. Bradley was called to the
Superior Court. He was very successful as a lawyer, continuing
his legal work until his death in May, 1898, at the age of seventy-
four years. Energetic and forceful, he was a fine representative of
the self-made men of our country, a record of his life furnishing a
fine illustration of the success that may be attained by persevering
industry, wise thrift and manly integrity. He married Caroline Latt-
imer, and to them four children were born, namely : Dr. Arthur A.,
who became a prominent and successful physician of Steuben coun-
ty and who died at the early age of thirty-nine years ; Hugh H., the
subject of this sketch ; Lester L., who died in early manhood, was for
a brief time engaged in the practice of law with his father; and
Adelaide, wife of Charles A. Hungerford, a well-known business man
of Bloomfield, Kew Yorlc.

Only a year old when brought by his parents to Corning, Hugh
H. Kendall was educated primarily in the public schools of Corning,
afterward attending the Corning Free Academy, and a member of the
class of 1882 in the University of Rochester. Returning to Corning,
'Mt. Kendall immediately found employment in the office of the
C. R. Maltby Company, with which he has since been associated,
at the present time being half owner. This company is a wholesale
dealer in groceries of all kinds; buys, roasts and sells coffee in
wholesale quantities; and manufactures and packs various kinds of
food products; in which it has a large trade. It is finely equipped,
among other practical conveniences owning its own large printing
plant. Largely through the enterprise and energy of Mr. Kendall
the company has extended its interests and is widely known in com-
mercial circles not only in its home city but throughout the county
and the state.

Mr. Kendall married in January, 1889, Harriet Maltby, a daugh-
ter of Charles R. Maltby, the president of the C. R. Maltby Com-
pany, and they have on child, Barbara Kendall. Mr. Kendall was
made a Mason in 1883, and has since been very active and prominent
in the order, in 1895 receiving the thirty-third degree of ilasonry.
He has filled almost every office in the order, including that of
commander-in-chief of the Consistory. He has made a close study
of Masonry in its varied branches and is now historian for this sec-
tion of the country.

Ray Giffoed Lawrence, M. D. — This popular and successful
medical practitioner was born in the town of Cameron, Steuben
county, Few York, March 28, 1869, a son of Andrew James Law-
rence, who was bom there January 14, 1834, and a grandson of
James Lawrence, born in N"ew Hampshire in 1801, a blacksmith
by trade, who came on foot to Cameron in 1823, one of the early
pioneers in that part of the county. This early settler, who was
known as Major Lawrence, was prominent in many ways, one of the

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influential men of liis time. He was postmaster thirtj-'Six years and
town elerk thirty-four years and was an active and helpful factor in
the establishment of Presbyterianism in his vicinity. His title came to
him for his activities in connection with the old state militia, which he
commanded at general trainings. He was a leader, too, in the local
work of the Sons of Temperance and was instrumental in organizing
lodges of that order. In politics he was an old-line Whig and a hater
of slavery and of the "state rights" idea. He married ilary Ann
Dickey, of a family that located in the county very early. She bore
her husband seven children, of whom William Lawrence and Andrew
James are the only ones alive. Andrew James Lawrence was a twin.
After the death of his wife Major Lawrence married her sister, Euth
Dickej-, who bore him three children — Sarah, wife of William Yates,
of Brockport; George N., of Spokane, Washington, and Almyra.
The original Lawrence of this American family of the name settled
in New Hampshire.

Dr. Lawrence's father was taught the blacksmith's trade by the
Major. Later he was employed at railroading. After spending some
years in the service of the Erie Eailroad Company at Addison, New
York, he turned to farming and assisting his father in blacksmithing.
His father retired from active life in 1874, after thirty-eight years of
honest and strenuous endeavor, which had brought him fair success
for the time and locality. In the later years he did quite a business
in buying and selling produce. His son took his business and added
to it the sale of coal and agricultural implements. In his earlier
years the latter was an active raftsman. In 1 854 he rafted one hun-
dred thousand feet of timber down the rivers to southern markets.
Colonel James Jones, now of Yonkers, was also a noted pilot in those
days. Mr. Lawrence retired in 1901 and moved to Hammondsport
to pass his declining years with his son. He was reared in the
Presbyterian faith. Politically he sided with the Eepublicans, work-
ing zealously for the success of his party. He was a member of the
Steuben County Eepublican Committee and held numerous offices.
He was supervisor three terms and was three times elected justice of
the peace. He trained with the "Know Nothings" in the time of
that party and was in all things consistently American, a lover of
freedom for all men, an advocate of equal chances for all. In 1858
he married Alma Chissom, who was born in Cameron in 1842, a
daughter of George Chissom, a native of Yates county and a pioneer
in Steuben. George Chissom's wife was Euth Williamson. Dr.
Lawrence has two brothers — Matthew D. Lawrence, nf Bath, and
Charles E. Lawrence, a hardware merchant at Knoxville, Tioga coun-
ty, Pennsylvania.

After a course in the schools of Bath Dr. Lawrence was grad-
uated from the high school in the class of 1889. He then went to
New York as a student in the New York College of Pharmacy. He
was graduated in 1893, and during the following five years was
preparing further for his professional career. In 1898 he was grad-
uated from the New York University Medical College, with the degree

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of M. D. He practiced medicine and surgery a year at Eochester,
New York, and in 1901 came to Hammondspo/t and bought the
practice of Dr. B. A. Barney. He has achieved an enviable success
and has become l^nown as one of the up-to-date physicians of the
county, a practitioner of modern attainments and of the best methods
of today. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of
the Struben County Medical Society and of the Lake Keuka Medical
Association and is a Mason.

On June 15, 1910, Dr. Lawrence married Miss Fredericka Mich-
elfelder, a native of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of
George jMichelfelder.

Fkepeeick a. Ellison. — A man of keen intellect and superior
business ability, public-spirited and progressive in a practical way,
Frederick A. Ellison, an accountant for the New York Central and
Hudson Eiver Eailroad Company, is a prominent and valued citizen
of Corning, which he is now serving as mayor. A Pennsylvanian by
birth, he was born June 20, 1865, in Tioga county. His parents, G.
F. and ilary (Sanderson) Ellison, natives of New York state, are
now residing in Elkland, Tioga county, Pennsylvania.

Spending his youthful days in his native state, Frederick A.
Ellison was educated in the Tioga High School and in the Elmira
School of Comm.erce, becoming well fitted for a business career. He
was subsequently engaged in the lumber business for some time with
his father. Entering the employ of the New York Central and
Hudson Eiver Eailroad Company in 1885, he was for a while tele-
graph operator at Waterville, Pennsylvania, from there going to
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, as accountant. Being transferred to
Corning in 1891, Mr. Ellison has since continued as accountant for
the company, with which he has been connected for a full quarter
of a century, his long record of service bespeaking his ability and
his fidelity.

One of the leading members of the Democratic party, Mr. Ellison
has been active in the management of public affairs, serving one year
as alderman from the Fourth ward and having been elected mayor
of the city in November, 1909, a position- which he is filling with
credit to himself and to the honor of his constituents. Fraternally
he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. and of the
Modern Woodmen of America.

On March 8, 1894, Mr. Ellison married Stella Bosard, and they
are the parents of three children, Henry, Harold and Jessie.

Frank LeEoy Puedt, A. M., M. D., D. 0., came from Boston,
Massachusetts, to Hornell, Steuben county. New York, August 1,
1909, and is in the active practice of his profession in its various
branches at his pleasant offices No. 9 Hakes Avenue. Dr. Purdy's
father was the late Dr. Andrew Purdy formerly a physician at
Jasper New York and later a minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church at various places in New York state and northern Pennsyl-

790 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

Dr. Frank LeEoy Purdy was graduated from the Genesee
Wesleyan Seminary in 1888 and from Syracuse University in 1893_j
after having become prominent on the athletic field and socially as
well as a student. He was the first athlete in that university and
still possesses a splendid physique. In 1895 he was graduated from
the Buffalo Medical College. Ho spent the ensuing year in the
Buffalo General Hospital. In 1899 he was graduated from the
Massachusetts College of Osteopathy and has since been granted by
examination, certificates of registration for the practice of 'medicine
and surgery in the states of New York, Maryland and Massachusetts.
During the past ten years he has practiced osteopathy in Boston and
during that period has been also connected with the Massachusetts
College of Osteopathy as professor of orthopedic surgery, major and
minor surgery, pathology, clinical diagnosis, obstetrics, gynecology
and osteopathic technique.

Dr. Purdy, with his fine scholastic and medical training, with
his exceptional hospital experience, entered upon the study of oste-
opathy with a preparation possessed by few, and his distinguished
services in osteopathy since have made him a leader in that school.
His broad education has enabled him to adopt the best methods of
all schools, and his comprehensive knowledge of the structure and
function of every part or organ of the human body enables him
quickly to diagnose the cause of a disordered condition and intelli-
gently to apply the treatment most exactly indicated.

Dr. Purdy is a Knight Templar and belongs to the Methodist
Episcopal church, in which he has served as steward. While in
Buffalo he was a church choir director. He married Miss Mollie
Spicer Jones, of Philadelphia, and has had three children, his oldest
son being a high school student and also an athlete.

The Purdy family is one of marked intellectuality. Dr. Purdy's
brother, Andrew J. Purdy, is a lawyer at Buffalo. His brother Eoss
C. is at the head of a department in the Ohio State University.
His brother Victor W. is an osteopathic physician in Toronto, Canada.
Andrew Purdy, M. D., D. D., father of these remarkable young
men, was born in Jasper, Steuben county. New York, February 26,
1842. He was graduated from Alfred University, at Alfred, Alle-
gany county, New York, took a post-graduate course in the Uni-
versity of Michigan and then studied medicine and surgery in the
University of New York. For twelve years he practiced medicine,
for a time being house surgeon in Bellevue Hospital. Becoming
dissatisfied with the part he was playing in the world, he studied
theology and preached as opportunity was afforded him and eight
years later was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He had charges in Erwin Center and Cohocton, Steuben
county. New York,' Lawrenceville, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, Vic-
tor, Ontario county. New York, Tonowanda, Erie county. New York,
and at Asbury church, Buffalo.

The Eev. Dr. Purdy was a man of much prominence on the
lecture platform and in conference work, and wherever he was sent
he met with great success. His powerful preaching made many

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converts. Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, had to show for his labors
there an augmented congregation and a new church building and
parsonage. Other towns where he preached were in large measure
benefited. He died at Corning, October 6, 1896.

PtUFus E. Clement.— The present popular postmaster at At-
lanta, Steuben county, New York, is Eufus E. Clement, and he is
a man of sterling integrity of character and unquestioned honesty.
He was born at Honeoye, New York, on the 25th of December, 1864,
and IS a son of Peter N. Clement, a native of Bristol, Ontario coun-
ty, New York. Peter Clement established his home in Naples town-
ship, Steuben county, in 1871, and he was identified with farming
dunng the greater part of his active business career. He was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church and he was a loyal Ee-
publican in his political convictions. He married Lois Bundy, who
was a daughter of Eufus Bundy, formerly of Connecticut, whence
they removed to Cohocton township, Steuben county. The mother
of Mrs. Clement was Lois (Love joy) Bundy, and she and her hus-
band passed the closing years of "their lives with their daughter,
Mrs. Clement, ilr. and Mrs. Clement became the parents of six
children, namely : Peter, of North Cohocton ; Mary, wife of William
Chapman, of Watkins, New York; Ella, wife of John Goundry, a
farmer in Naples- township, this county ; Carrie, wife of Prank Carey,
of Naples township; Lola, wife of L. Laird, of Naples township;
and Eufus E., the immediate subject of this review. The father was
summoned to the life eternal in 1879, at the age of sixty years, and
his wife passed away in 1888, at the age of fifty-eight years.

Eufus Eichmond Clement was reared to maturity on the old
homestead farm of his parents and he was afforded the advantages
of the public schools of his native place. He was nine years of age
at the time of his parents' removal to Naples, Ontario county, where
he completed his education. He was associated with his father in
the work and management of the home farm until his marriage, in
1884, and he continued to be identified with farming pursuits until
1895, in which year he removed to Atlanta where he entered the
emploj' of William T. Cornish, who owned a general store, in con-
nection with which he conducted the postoffice. After his death,
which occurred in 1904, Mr. Clement was appointed postmaster by
President Eoosevelt, and he is still incumbent of this position.
In politics he is a stanch adherent of the cause of the
Eepublican party and he has ever manifested a deep and intelligent
interest in all measures and enterprises projected for the general
welfare of the community. He takes an active part in local politics
and has served as delegation committeeman for his district. He is
a valued and appreciative member of Kanawha Lodge, No. 566, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he is a past grand master,
besides which he also holds membership in Cohocton Lodge No. 510,
Free & Accepted ^Masons, and Bath Chapter No. 95, Eoyal Arch
Masons.

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111 1884 Mr. Clement was united in marriage to Miss Alice
Salisbury, who was born at Naples, New York, in Julj^, 1866, a
daughter of Henry and Mary (Wilson) Salisbury, the former of whom
is a prominent farmer in Naples township and the latter of whom
is deceased. Mrs. Clement is a member of the Daughters of Eebekah
and is active in the affairs of the local lodge of this order. Mr. and
Mrs. Clement have one daughter, Mildred, born in 1886. She was
graduated in the North Cohocton high school and also attended the
Teacher's Training School of Cohocton. At the present time she is
one of the successful and popular teachers in Cohocton township.
She is a member of Eastern Star Ijodge, of Cohocton, and of the
Daughters of Eebekah, of Atlanta.

William E. Kimball is the owner of a well improved farm of
sixty acres in Caton township and is numbered among the successful
and popular representatives of the agricultural industry in Steubeii
county. He is a man of high ideals and sterling integrity and has
been prominently identified with church work, as well as with the
affairs of the Young Men's Christian Association. His sterling
character and his broad humanitarianism have gained to him an
inviolable hold upon the confidence and esteem of those with whom
he has come in contact in the various relations of life, and as one
of the honored citizens of Steuben county he is well entitled to rep-"
resentation in this publication.

William E. Kimball claims the fine commonwealth of ilinnesota
as the place of his nativity. He was bom in Steele county, that state,
on the 18th of June, 1868, and is a son of Lazell and Amanda (Hill)
Kimball, the former of whom was born in Wellsboro, Tioga county,
Pennsylvania, and the latter in Caton township, Steuben county,
New York. When William E. Kimball was about one year old
his parents returned to Wellsboro, Pennsj'lvania, and he was but
three years of age at the time of his father's death. He was reared
to the age of eleven years in the home of his maternal grandfather,
William P. Hill, of Steuben county, and in the meanwhile he duly
availed himself of the advantages of the district schools. When
he was eleven years of age his mother contracted a second marriage,
becoming the wife of Robert Richards, of Caton township, this
county, and Mr. Kimball passed the following seven years in the
home of his mother and step-father. At the expiration of this period
his mother was summoned to the life eternal and shortly afterward,
at the age of eighteen years, he removed to Iowa and located at
Clarion, Wright county. He remained in the west about one year
and then returned to Steuben county, where he secured a position in
the Corning Glass Works, in the city of Corning. Shortly afterward,
however, he was tendered and accepted the position of secretary of
the Corning Young Men's Christian Association. He was general
secretary for fifteen years and assistant secretary for one year and
nine months during which time he did much to further the material
advancement and general work of the organization. At the expira-
tion of the period noted he went to St. Petersburg, Florida, where he'

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remained about two winters^ spending the summers here. He then
returned to Steuben county, and in 1907 located upon his present
well improved farm in Caton township, tO the supervision and work
of which he has since given his attention. Besides his valuable home-
stead he is also the owner of a number of residence properties in the
city of Corning.

In politics Mr. Kimball is a stanch adherent of the Prohibitionist
party and he has been most zealous in connection with temperance
work. That his convictions in regard to the nefarious liquor trslffic
are those of action are shown by the fact that he exercises his
franchise in support of the cause which he thus advocates. Both he
and his wife are earnest and devout members of the Methodist Episco-
pal church in the village of Caton, and he is not only a member of
its official board but is also the superintendent of its Sunday-school.

At Corning, New York, January 13, 1892, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Kimball to Miss Cora E. Cleveland, who was born
and reared in Elmira, and they became the parents of two children:
Everett, who was born in the year 1900, and Erwin, who died in
infancy. Mrs. Kimball was summoned to the life eternal in April,
1905, and in 1907 Mr. Kimball was united in marriage to Mrs.
Bessie (Deyo) Smith, who was born in Steuben county, where they
now live, and who is a daughter of Alonzo Deyo. No children have
been born of the second marriage. Mrs. Kimball by her former mar-
riage to Willard Parker Smith had two children : Cornelia, now ilrs.
Benjamin Honness, and Pauline, who is at home.

Feaitk DixsoN Kingsbury. — A man of stanch financial and
business ability and of broad, practical views, Frank Dixson Kings-
bury is at the forefront among those progressive and influential citi-
zens who have given to Corning a bright and enviable name for a
superior brand of aggressiveness and evolution. He has been identi-
fied with many of the important concerns of the town and was for
twenty-seven years treasurer and general manager of that thrifty
enterprise, the Corning Gas Company. A public-spirited citizen and
one to be depended upon to give his support to any cause likely to
result in the attainment of the greatest good to the greatest number,
it was indeed appropriate that he should have served as president
of the village.

Mr. Kingsbury's father, Lewis Clark Kingsbury, was a son of
Jonathan and Artimisia Kingsbury, and was bom in Livonia, New
York, December 3J, 1815, his death occurring at Corning, September
5, 1889. He married Eliza Dixson, daughter of Henry and Louisa
Dixson of Livonia, New York, the date of their union being August
23, 1844. The wife was born at Livonia, April 3, 1835, and died at
Corning, November 27, 1901. The removal of the family to Corning
was in 1854, Mr. Kingsbury being local station agent for the Buffalo,
Corning & New York Eailroad Company, now the Eochester division
of the Erie Eailroad. He continued in this position for some time,
later becoming a passenger conductor on the Erie Eailroad. In 1868

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he left the employ of the Erie and embarked in the carriage business
at Corning, under the firm name of L. C. Kingsbury & Company,
and this enterprise he carried on successfully for a number of years.
For twenty-five years previous to his death he was president of the
Corning Gas Company. As an evidence of the confidence in which
he was held by the community in which he lived he was elected to
many public ofQces, among which was president of the village of
Corning and supervisor of the town of Corning, holding the latter
office at the time of his death. For several terms he was chairman
of the Board of Supervisors of Steuben county. For many years
he was the president of the Steuben County Agricultural Society.

He was interested in the great basic industry and the natural
resources of the county and was president of the Corning Agricultural
Society. He and his wife were the parents of two sons, Frank Dix-
son Kingsbury, whose name initiates this review, born in Conesus,
JS'ew York, February 26, 1847; and Fred Stewart Kingsbury, born
in Conesus, New York, May 5, 1853, and died at Corning, May 20,
1883. On November 25, 1877, the latter married Carrie Louise
Smith, of Painted Post, who died at Painted Post, January 31,
1887. They are survived by one daughter, Ella.

Frank Dixson Kingsbury, as previously mentioned, is a native
of the Empire state. He received his preliminary education in the
public schools of Corning. He later matriculated in Williston
Seminary at East Hampton, Massachusetts, and after finishing there
he entered the employ of Cole & Thomson, bankers and insurance
agents, of Corning, New York. He also became associated with the
Corning Gas Company on March 26, 1864. On December 1, 1874,
Mr. Kingsbury purchased the interest of Charles H. Thomson in
the Coming Gas Company, and on July 12, 1879, he also purchased
that gentleman's interest in the firm of Cole & Thomson, and formed
a partnership with Chester S. Cole, under the firm name of Cole &
Kingsbury, which continued until July 1, 1901. Following that date
the business was continued by Mr. Kingsbury as F. D. Kingsbury
& Company. As previously mentioned his connection with the Corn-
ing Gas Company as treasurer, general manager and director, was
of twenty-seven years' duration prior to 1901, in which year he
disposed of all his gas and electric interests.

In addition to these important offices and connections Mr. Kings-
bury has had various other interests. For many years he was pres-
ident of the Corning fire department, and previous to that had
served in the capacity of treasurer for that organization. He was
the president of the board of sewer commissioners and also of the
board of river commissioners and is the vice-president and executive
officer of the board of water commissioners of the city of Corning. He
was instrumental in the organization of the Corning Co-Operative
Savings & Loan Association, which was incorporated May 14, 1889,
and has served as its president since that date. Since the time of
its organization he has been the president of the Corning Opera
House Company. This versatile and energetic gentleman, whose

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sound judgment and executive ability are of an order which make
him a valuable adjunct to any enterprise, is a member of the board
of managers of the Corning Free Library and trustee of the First
Presbyterian church.

*Mr. Kingsbury is unmarried and resides at 33 East First Street,
Corning, New York.

Geoege W. Kyan. — A wide-awake, enterprising young man, pos-
sessing excellent business qualifications, George W. Ryan of Corning,
is actively engaged in the real estate and loan business, in which
he is meeting with satisfactory success. A worthy representative of
the native-born citizens of Corning, his birth occurred November 13,
1881. His father, William G. Eyan, was born at Mount Morris,
Livingston county. New York, and was brought up and educated in
Yates county. Coming to Steuben county in 1880, he established
himself as a merchant in Corning, where he has since been a respected
and valued resident. He married Ellen Dormer, who spent her entire
life in Corning, her death occurring here December 15, 1909. Five
children were born of their union, namely: William, deceased; Ber-
tha, wife of T. D. Tennant, of New York city; G-eorge W., of whom
we write; Catherine; and James D., of Corning.

Bred and educated in Coming, George W. Ryan began hustling
for himself at the age of twenty-one years, and in addition to dealing
in real estate and making loans has other financial interests in Corn-
ing. Paying strict regard to honor and veracity in his transactions,
ilr. Ryan has met with most satisfactory success in his undertakings,
being recognized as an important factor in the promotion and ad-
vancement of the material welfare of his city. He is widely and
favorably known, and is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and
of the Order of Eagles.

C. E. Beaed. — Steuben county cannot boast of many lawyers
better equipped for their profession or of more credit to it than the
prominent citizen of Hornell whose name is the title of this article.
Mr. Beard was born in what is now the town of Hartsville, Steuben
county, .Tilly 8, 1843. His father, Erastus S. Beard, of English ex-
traction but of Connecticut nativity, came with an ox team to
Steuben county in the days when that was an approved mode of
travel. He was a teacher, a hotel-keeper and a farmer, was active
and influential in public affairs, first as a Whig and finally as a
Democrat, and he died on his birthday in March, 1888, deeply re-
gretted by all who had known him. His wife, who was Emaline
Browne, a native of Pennsylvania, lived to be eighty-six years old.
The following facts concerning some of their children will be found
to be interesting in this connection. Solomon died in infancy. Clara
B. married Solomon B. Huy, of Corning. John M. is deceased.
Daniel E. lives in Hornell. Asher M. is deceased. Sabra A. is de-
ceased. C. B. was the fourth of the family in order of nativity.
He passed the days of his childhood and boyhood in Hartsville, work-
ing on the farm and attending public school.

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798 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

Mr. Beard's real battle for life began when, at eighteen, he went
to Canisteo as a clerk in the store of Southworth and Waldo. After
he had worked there one year and saved a little money, for the sal-
aries of young clerks were very small, he became a student at Alfred,
but was obliged soon to give up his studies because of ill health. After
having spent a year on the farm at work and in recuperation, he went
to Hornell, where for about two years he was employed hj E. G.
Durfee, merchant and postmaster. During the succeeding two years
he conducted a merchant tailoring business on his own account.
Then, after devoting a year to the study of law, he entered the
Albany Law School, from which he was graduated in the spring
of 1869.

Immediately after his graduation Mr. Beard was admitted to
the bar of the state of New York. Eeturning to Hornell he be-
came connected with the law offices of Bemis and Near and was soon
elected a Justice of the peace. Under the law existing then the office
was called that of justice of sessions and the County Court was com-
posed of county Judge and two justices of the peace. He served
in that capacity a year. In 1874 he was appointed one of the
district clerks of the general assembly at Albany. The session began
January 1, 1875, and ran througli the winter. Hiram A. Calkins
was clerk of the assembly and Daniel S. Lament was the chief en-
grossing clerk. At the close of the session he returned to Hornell
and resumed the general practice of the law, in which he has since
been very successful. In 1876 he took an active part in the presi-
dential campaign in support of the Hon. Samuel J. Tilden. Since
then ,he has been active as a Democrat. He worked in Steuben
county for the nomination of President Cleveland in 1892 and in the
campaign was active in the advocacy and promotion of his election.
He has supported each successive Democratic nominee for the presi-
dency since, doing his best for Bryan, and he is now a firm believer
in the destiny of Judge Gaynor of New York city. For twelve
years, under the village and under the city government, he filled the
office of justice of the peace with rare ability and fidelity.

In 1873, Mr. Beard married Miss Cora Swain. She died in the
fall of 1875 ; and in February, 1898, he married Miss Josephine M.
Collins. In connection with his legal practice he has been active
in the handling of real estate. He owns considerable real estate in
the city and a fine dairy farm near by. His solicitude for the
growth and advancement of Hornell is such that it impels him fre-
quently to the exhibition, of a commendable public spirit which marks
him as a most useful citizen.

Valentine Eettig. — Worthy of special mention in this bio-
graphical volume is Valentine Eettig, of Corning, who is a self-
made man in every sense implied by the term. Coming to this
city from Germany when young, he has risen from humble surround-
ings and limited circumstances without the assistance of influential
friends or the advantages of wealth, steadily working his way up-

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 799

ward until today he is a power in the manufacturing and commercial
life of the city, being at the head of the "Rettig Bottling Works/"
a substantial and successful industry. He was born June 11, 1846,
in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, where he was bred and educated.

At the age of eighteen years ambition impelled him to leave the
Fatherland and in America seek the fortune waiting the young
men of industry, perseverance and sobriety. Locating in Corning in
1865, soon after his arrival in this country, Mr. Rettig entered a
tinning eatablishment and for two years managed the mercantile de-
partment of the company by which he was employed, the next two
years being engaged in the grocery business. He was afterwards a
dealer in meats and provisions for three years, and then changed his
occupation, becoming a hotel keeper. In connection with his hotel,
Mr. Rettig in 1875 embarked in the bottling business, beginning
on a modest scale but he has now an extensive plant, the pro-
ductions of which find a ready market in the different towns, cities and
villages of Steuben county, his variety of soft drinks being widely
known and in great demand. In 1909 Mr. Rettig sold his entire
business to his daughter Mabel, and her husband, Thomas O'Connor,
but the old firm name is still retained.

Since casting his first presidential vote in 1873 for U. S. Grant,
Mr. Rettig has been a zealous advocate of the principles of the Re-
publican party, and has been prominent in public affairs. In 1893
he was elected to represent the Third ward on the Board of Alder-
men, and has since been elected to the same position four different
times. In 1904 Mr. Rettig was elected mayor of Corning on the
Democratic ticket, and in 1906 was elected to the same high office
on the Independent ticket, which was supported by the Republicans.
Fraternally Mr. Rettig is one of the oldest members of Corning
Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. 0. E., and he is also a member of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of the Maccabees.

In May, 1870, Mr. Rettig married Mary Greger, and they are
the parents of six children, namely: Matilda, Fred, Kate, Elmira,
wife of Walter Wood; Hattie, wife of John McAvoin and Mabel,
wife of Thomas O'Connor.

Teumai^- S. Pritchaed. — The descendant of an early family of
Corning, Steuben county, Truman S. Pritchard is distinguished as
the longest-established merchant in this part of the county, having
been continuously engaged in business here for forty-seven consecu-
tive years. A inan of noble character and good business capacity,
he has won well-deserved success through his fidelity to his trusts
and his honest, upright dealings with the people; and the respect
and esteem in which be is justly held by all bears evidence of his
straightforward manly life. He was born August 11, 1837, in Law-
renceville, Tioga countv, Pennsylvania, which was also the birthplace
of his father, Hiram Pritchard.

Hiram Pritchard was born February 7, 1818. About 1838 he
came from Pennsylvania to New York, locating in Corning, where
he followed his trade of a miller many years, being also engaged

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in the lumber business to some extent, and for some time eon-
ducting a grocery store. He died in Corning February 6, 1896, at
the good old age of seventy-eight years. He was of Welsh descent,
and inherited in a marked degree many of the traits of character
that distinguishd his honored ancestors. His wife, whose maiden
name was Lucinda Searles, was born December 1, 1817, in Tioga
countj', New York, and died in Corning, New York, in 1888. They
reared two sons and one daughter, Truman S., the subject of this
brief biographical sketch, being the eldest child.

About a year old when his parents came to Corning, Truman
S. Pritchard was here bred and educated, obtaining his early knowl-
edge in the common schools. Soon after attaining his majority he
embarked in mercantile pursuits, from 1861 until 1866 dealing in gro-
ceries. In 1867 Mr. Pritchard established himself in the hardware busi-
ness in the building which he is now occupying, and has since conducted
a large and lucrative trade, increasing his stock in quantity, quality
and variety as the wants of his many patrons demanded. He is the
oldest merchant of the city and is widely known and highly re;
spected.

No man has taken greater interest in the growth and prosperity
of his home city than Mr. Pritchard, and none has been more willing
to contribute of his time and means to further its interests. For
eight years he served as chairman of the Eepublican County Commit-
tee. He was one of the aldermen of the village of Corning in 1865
and 1866, and was collector of the port of Corning four years.
He is very prominent in Masonic circles, having passed through all
the chairs of Masonry and is one of the few men in this part of the
state that has taken the thirty-third degree of the craft.

On December 1, 1858, Mr. Pritchard married Mary W. McCarty^
and of their union two sons and two daughters were born. One son
and both daughters have passed to the life beyond, the only child
living being their son Harrie W.

Harrie W. Pritchard. was born August 13, 1863, in Corning, and
was here brought up. He received his elementary education in the
public schools, afterwards attending the Corning Free Academy. In
1882 he was graduated from the Peekskill Military Academy, after
which he continued his studies at the Syracuse University. Return-
ing from that institution to Corning, he has since been actively en-
gaged in business with his father. Following in the political footsteps
of liis father, he is active in the Eepublican ranks, and for two terms
has served as alderman from the Second ward. He married April
38, 1889, Bertha Eoe, and they have one daughter, Margaret
Pritchard.

Hon. William Rdmset, son of Supreme Court Justice David
Eumsey and Jane E. (Brown) Eumsey, was born at Bath, Steuben
county. New York, October 18, 1841. He was educated early in life
in the public and private schools of Bath. He early developed a com-
prehensive desire to investigate all questions of an intricate nature,
especially those involving the principles of government, civil rights

HISTOEY OP STEUBEN" COUNTY 801

and political economy. He prepared for and entered Williams Col-
lege, in Massaclmsetts, in 1857, became an industrious and promising
student, attracting the attention of the whole faculty. The exciting
political campaign of 1860, developed Ms enthusiasm for the party of
Lincoln, and during his vacation in that year he became the captain
of and drilled the political marching clubs of that historic political'
campaign, known as the "Wide Awakes."

In April, 1861, after the assault upon Eort Sumter, and a few
weeks before the commencement of his college term, William Eumsey
with other young men, closed their books, turned their backs on the
classic halls, gave up their cherished hopes and ambition, to answer
to the call for troops to maintain the integrity of the Union, but in
recognition of his standing and his sacrifice, he was graduated by his
Alma Mater in June, 1861. Soon after his enlistment in the mili-
tary service of the United States, he was, at Elmira, Few York, ap-
pointed aid-de-camp to General Eobert B. Van Valkenburg, an uncle
(the husband of his father's sister) ,: on October 17 of that year he
resigned that office and was appointed first lieutenant and adjutant,
in the First iNTew York Light Artiller}% commanded by Colonel C. D.
Bailey; in November he went with his regiment to Washington and
remained there in camp until April, 1863, when Colonel Bailey was
assigned to the position of Chief of Artillery, in Casey's division in
the Fourth Army Corps, and Lieutenant Eumsey went with Colonel
Bailey to his new post. He reached Newport News, Virginia, with
his division, in the fore part of April, and went to the front. He
was engaged in the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, till May 4, and the
next day he participated in the battle of Williamsburg; he was in the
Peninsular campaign from that day till May 31, when, in the battle
of Fair Oaks, his horse was shot under him and he was severely
wounded in the shoulder and sent north. On his return to duty he
was promoted to the rank of captain and assistant adjutant general
for bravery at Fair Oaks. He was assigned to the command of Gen-
eral William W. Averill, a Steuben county, New York, West Point
graduate, with whom he participated in many engagements, mostly
in West Virginia. His gallant services' rendered his promotion
steady, and on the 25th of May, 1865, he was commissioned a major,
for braverv at Moofield, West"Virginia, when he led one column of
the sixteen hundred Federal troops, under General Averill, who at-
tacked and utterly routed thirty-two hundred Confederate troops,
killing, wounding and capturing one-half of the entire force, and dis-
persing the remainder. In further reward for his services he received
from President Andrew Johnson a further commission as lieutenant
colonel, with rank from March 13, 1865, and stated it was given for
distinguished services in the campaign of May, June and July, 1864.
In February, 1868, he received from Governor Eeuben E. Fenton, of
New York, a commission of brevet colonel, for meritorious services
in the late war. It was the opinion of general officers, among them
General Casey and General Averill, that Colonel Eumsey should have
received a much higher commission than he had attained.

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Soon after the close of the war General Van Valkenburg was
appointed minister to Japan, and Colonel Eumsey went out with him
as secretary of the legation. After a sojourn in that country for two
years Colonel Eumsey returned to his native state and settled down
to the active and serious work of his after life. He studied law in his
father's (Judge David Eumsey) law office, a noted feature of which
was that it was the training school of five justices of the Supreme
Court, namely: The subject of this sketch. General E. B. Van
Valkenburg of the Supreme Court of Florida; James M. Barker of
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; Loyd Barber of the Minnesota
Circuit Court, and David Eumsey of New York. Colonel Eumsey
was admitted to the bar three years thereafter and became a lawyer
of executive reputation and large practice. In 1880, Colonel Eumsey
was elected a justice of the Supreme Court of the state of New York
for the Seventh Judicial District, where he served at special and trial
terms and in the Appellate Division of the Fourth Judicial Depart-
ment, with noted ability. He was afterward designated by the gov-
ernor of the state to serve as one of the seven justices of the Appellate
Division, in the First Judicial Department of the Supreme Court,
composed of the city and county of New York. The Supreme Court
Eeports for that period attest his great learning and judicial ability.

Because of his refusal to yield to the dictations of that political
tyrant. Senator Thomas C. Piatt, the personnel of the bench of the
Appellate Division of the First Judicial Department was changed.
Shortly following this Judge William Eumsey resigned from the
bench of the Supreme Court and returned to the active practice of
his profession in the city of New York. Judge Eumsey is the author
of an exhaustive and standard work on the practice in the courts of
the state of New York. He was appointed by Governor David B.
Hill, with Hon. David Dudley Field and Hon. David L. Pollett, a
commissioner to revise and prepare a code of evidence. He had a
large fund of literary and historical acquirements, and frequently
upon request delivered addresses upon those subjects with credit and
distinction. Notably was his address delivered upon the occasion of
the observance of the centennial of the settlement of Hornellsville
and -the Canisteo Valley in 1890.

Judge Eumsey married Miss Ella Moore and three children
blessed their union, a son, David Eumsey, a well known and prom-
inent lawyer of the city of New York, and two daughters, Mrs. John
S. Sheppard, of the same city, and Mrs. Evans, of London, England.

Judge Eumsey was of untiring energy and ceaseless industry ; he
was possessed of a splendid physical system, but his labors in the
field, at the bar, on the bench and in his study were too much for his
robust constitution, and he died from overwork at his home in the
city of New York, on January 16, 1903. His remains were brought
to Bath and there deposited in the family lot in Grbve cemetery,
mourned by all who knew him.

MoKRis E. Gregory. — Holding high rank among the active and
progressive citizens of Steuben county is Morris E. Gregory, pro-

HISTOEY OF STEUBElSr COUNTY 803

prietor of the Corning Brick, Terra Cotta and Tile Company. He
possesses a natural aptitude for business, being keen and alert to take
advantage of opportunities, and broad and bright enough to handle
large enterprises, being, in Western parlance, a "hustler." A son of
Erwin L. Gregory, he was born in Caton, Steuben county. New York,
July 29, 1864. His grandfather, Stephen L. Gregory, a farmer by
occupation, was a pioneer settler of this part of the Empire state and
actively identified with its early development and growth.

Born and reared in Steuben county, Erwin L. Gregory spent his
sixty-six years of life in the county, during his active life being
engaged in agricultural pursuits in the town of Caton. He married
Laura Hildreth, who was born in Yates county. New York, and died
in Steuben county. They reared two children. May and Morris E.,
the son being the first-born.

Brought up on the home farm in Caton, Morris E. Gregory
acquired the rudiments of his education in the district schools,
in 1886 being graduated from the Corning Free Academy. He sub-
sequently taught four years in the graded schools of New Jersey, from
there coming to Corning to establish himself in business. He entered
the employ of his predecessors, proprietors of the Corning Brick
Company, and continued as bookkeeper uptil 1896, when he pur-
chased the entire business, of which he has since been the sole
owner. In its management Mr. Gregory has met with eminent
success during the fourteen years of his ownership. Mr. Gregory's
business includes the manufacture of architectural terra cotta, paving
and common building brick, and besides this he is a large dealer in
cement, lime, coal, etc., he is also interested quite extensively in
the lumber business. The architectural terra cotta manufactured
by this plant is shipped throughout a large territory and Corning
terra cotta may be found in many large buildings in the east. Mr.
Gregory has made a thorough study of paving brick and the result
is that his, product ranks among the best made in this country.

Mr. Gregory married Miss Anna Creveling on October 29, 1902,
and they have two sons, Morris Creveling and George Erwin. Mr.
Gregory has long been a member of the Masonic order, ranks as a Sir
Knight, has taken. the thirty-second degree, Scottish Eite, and is a
member of the Mystic Shrine and of the Consistory. He is likewise
a member and past grand in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and a member of Corning Lodge, No. 1071, B. P. 0. E. Politically
he is a straightforward Eepublican.

George Foster of the town of Prattsburg, Steuben county,
was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1817, one of the nine children
of Ealph Foster, and came to the United States in 1850. Locating in
the town of Prattsburg, he engaged in farming, meeting with good
success and winning honor as a citizen. In 1867 he married Ann
Stevenson, a native of England. They had six children: Frank,
John, Mary, Ann, George and William. Of these two are deceased,
John and Ann. Frank and Mary live in Eushville, and George and
William reside in Prattsburg. The mother of this family died in

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1872. The father later married a Miss Horton. He died November
3, 1899. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a
good citizen, helpful in all the relations of life and as a business
man thrifty, industrious and prosperous.

His son George was born January 33, 1860. He was educated
in the public schools and brought up as a farmer's boy of all work.
At sixteen, he began to work out by the month. He now owns one
hundred and twenty-two acres of land a mile and a half northwest
of Prattsburg. A lover of good horses he raises some of the best in
the county. As a general farmer and stockraiser he ranks with the
most successful men in his vicinity.

June 33, 1890, Mr. Foster married Lillie Parks, born June 33,
1863, a daughter of Luther Parks, who was a native of Albany,
New York. She was reared on a farm and early in life left home to
do for herself and was domiciled with the family of Thomas Hutch-
inson until she married. She has borne her husband two daughters:
Clara, born February 3, 1897, and Grace I., born April 16, 1901.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster are earnest, upright, highly respected people.
They are essentially self-made. Both relied on personal resources
in youth and made a good and honest start in life. He in his way,
she in hers, planned wisely and worked successfully. They are en-
joying the rewards of years well spent.

John M. Pinch. — This enterprising business man and prom-
inent citizen of Hornell was born in that city January 39, 1841.
Nathaniel Pinch, his father, came to Steuben county in 1838 and lo-
cated at Hornellsville. He was of English descent but of American
birth and was a lawyer of ability who practiced his profession about
thirty-five years, a part of the time holding the office of Justice of
the peace and for twenty-five years was the attorney and land agent
of the New York & Erie Eailroad Company and its successors. He
died when he was about sixty-eight years old. His father, a Baptist
minister, was a Connecticut man. This family of Pinch is descended
in the male line from one of four brothers who came over from
England in Colonial times. Nathaniel Pinch married Samantha Pat-
rick, a native of Dutchess county, New York, and of Irish par-
entage, who lived to be ninety-one years old. They had nine chil-
dren, five daughters and four sons, all but two of whom grew to
maturity. Three of the sons were living in 1910. John M. Finch
was the third son and seventh child in order of nativity, and he is
the only member of his parents' family now living in Steuben
county.

Mr. Finch spent his youth in Hornell and began his education
in local public schools. After having been a student for a time at
the old Nunda Academy he read law with his father as a preceptor
and was admitted to the bar when he was twenty-two years old. He
was for eight years assistant to his father and twenty-five years gen-
eral land and tax agent for the Erie Railway Company, and he has
been from time to time connected with numerous business inter-

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HISTORY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 807

ests. He was one of the chief organizers of the First National
Bank of Hornell, and has been its vice-president from its beginning
to the present time. He helped to organize and is president of the
Hornell Land Company. He was one of the organizers also, in 1886,
of the Hornell Electric Company, of which he is president. He was
one of the original promoters of the Hope Cemetery Association and
has been manager of its business since 1864. He built the present
Steuben Sanitarium and was for some years president of the cor-
poration controlling it. He was one of the historic twenty men who
organized the Hornell Chamber of Commerce and was the first pres-
ident of that body. In fact he has been identified for many years
with every important public movement in which the citizens of
Hornell have been interested. One of the latest is the Hornell and
Bath Interurban Electric Eoad, and he is chairman of the board of
directors having this great public improvement in hand. He is the
owner of much real estate at and near Hornell.

In 1868 Mr. Finch married Caroline A. Patrick. They have two
daughters. One of them is Mrs. Charles A. White, of Chicago,
Illinois. Miss Mabel S. Finch is a member of her father's household.
Mr. Finch's earliest political alliance was with Republicans. Adher-
ing to Horace Greeley in the great editor's hapless fight for the
presidency, he became a liberal Republican. Since that campaign he
has acted with the Democratic party. As alderman, as school trustee
and otherwise he has officially served his fellow citizens of Hornell.
In every public relation to which he has been called he has amply
proven his public spirit. Indeed there is no proposition looking with
any degree of promise to the general good of the city that does not
have his cordial and liberal support.

Waeren J. Cheney. — Noteworthy among the active and prom-
inent members of the Steuben county bar is Warren J. Cheney, of
Corning, who, as junior member of the well-known law firm of
Sebring & Chenev, is carrying on a substantial business, having a
large and lucrative practice. He is likewise identified with one of
the leading business concerns of the city, being vice-president of the
Corning Cut Glass Company. A son of Judson Z. Cheney, he was
born April 27, 1862, in Saint Lawrence county. New York.

Judson Z. Cheney was born, bred and educated in Saint Law-
rence county. New York. Soon after the breaking out of the Civil
war his patriotic spirit being aroused, he cheerfully offered his serv-
ices to his country, enlisting in the Ninety-eighth New York Volun-
teer Infantry. With his comrades he took part m many battles, and
in September, 1864, at Fort Harrison, during the very last engage-
ment of his regiment, he lost his life, being killed on the field ot
battle when but twenty-eight years of age. He married Thirza M.
Blanchard, who was left a widow when young, with one child, War-
ren J Cheney, the special subject of this sketch. She subsequently
married for her second husband Charles G. Cheney, and by that
marriage had one child, Carroll C. Cheney, of Corning, who is now

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shipping clerk in the wholesale grocery house of the C. E. Maltby
Company. The mother died December 14, 1908.

Graduating from the classical department of the Potsdam Nor-
mal School with the class of 1881, Warren J. Cheney was principal
of the Covington Academy during the following five years, while
from 1886 until 1889 he held a similar position in the Brasher and
Stockholm Union Free School and Academy. During his pedagogical
career ilr. Cheney read law, completing his studies in the office of
John & Gilbert at Malone, Franklin county. In September, 1890,
at Saratoga, he was admitted to the New York bar, and two months
later began the practice of his profession in Corning. In 1897 he
formed a partnership with James 0. Sebring, of whom a brief per-
sonal record is found elsewhere in this volume, and he has since car-
ried on a lively and remunerative practice as junior member of
the firm of Sebring & Cheney. Successful in his work, Mr. Cheney
has acquired valuable business and residential property in city and
town, and has large farming interests in the county. He has ever
evinced genuine interest in local affairs, and as a loyal adherent of the
Eepublican party served as alderman from 1893 until 1895, and from
1895 until 1899 was city recorder.

On July 3, 1884, Mr. Cheney was united in marriage with Lizzie
H. Southwick. She died March 'lO, 1886, leaving one child, Guy W.
Cheney, who was graduated from the classical • department of the
Syracuse University in 1908 and from its Law School with the class
of 1910. He was admitted to the bar at Eochester in September,
1910. Mr. Cheney married for his second wife, August 10, 1887,
Addie C. Benedict, a daughter of James T. and Celia Benedict, and
their only child, Muriel A. Cheney, graduated from the Corning Free
Academy in June, 1910.

Fraternally Mr. Cheney is a member and past master of Painted
Post Lodge No. 117, F. & A. M., at Corning, New York; a member
and past high priest of Corning Chapter No. 130, E. A. M.' ; a mem-
ber of Omers Commandery, K. T., at Elmira, New York; a member
of Kalura Temple, at Binghamton, New York; and at present is
commander-in-chief of the Corning Consistory. He stands high in
the order, being a thirty-second degree Mason. At the meeting of the
Supreme Council A. A. S. E., at Detroit in September, 1910, he was
elected to receive the thirty-third degree. Mr. Cheney is also a mem-
ber of Corning Lodge No. 1071, B. P. 0. E. Eeligiously he belongs
to the Methodist Episcopal church.

Fkank L. McCabe. — This successful and widely known citizen
of Steuben county is a self-made man whose example should not
be lost on the young men of today. He was born at Campbell, July
15, 1861, a son of John McCabe. The latter was born in county
Ca'van, Ireland, and came to the United States when he was about
twenty-one years old. He located in Dutchess county, New York,
and went from there to Troy, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where
he married Eliza Patterson, a native of Dublin, Ireland. They

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came to Campbell in 1854. He found work in the tannery there and
was killed by the cars when he was about seventy-eight years old.
His widow is living, aged about seventy-five. They had ten chil-
dren, six sons and four daughters. One of them died in infancy.
The others grew to maturity and eight of them are living. All of
this large family were born at Campbell. Frank L. was the second
son and third child. He spent his boyhood in Campbell, and gained
a practical education in the public school of the village. At eighteen
he went to Emporium, Pennsylvania, but after working three months
there went to Eedhouse, Cattaraugus county. New York, where he
was a clerk in a store ten years. Then he bought the store and en-
gaged in the lumber business. In 1896 he returned to Campbell,
leaving his interests in Eedhouse to the management of his brother
and partner, John B. McCabe. At Campbell he established a
flourishing general store, owns the Erie and D. L. & W. coal yards,
and has acquired several farms in the country round about. He is a
partner in the McCabe Lumber Company, of Warren, Pennsylvania,
which is under the management of his brother, Thomas P., the pres-
ident of the company.

In 1883 Mr. McCabe married Miss Eilla Fuller, daughter of
Howard Fuller, of Eedhouse, New York, where she was born in 1860.
They have two daughters. Mary L. graduated at the Corning High
School and has been a student at the Elmira Female College three
years. Elizabeth A. is attending the -ehool at Campbell, ilr.
McCabe is a Democrat.

Aedeen Eichmond, M. D., of Wayland, one of the most suc-
cessful medical and surgical practitioners in Steuben county, was
born in Independence, Allegany county. New York, March 11, 1879,
a son of William H. and Nettie (Baker) Eichmond. His father,
who was also bom in Independence, is a resident of Wellsville, in
that county. After he left school he farmed for some years, then
became a traveling salesman and was so employed four years. Later,
after ten years in the service of a prominent concern, he took up opti-
cal work, studying and practicing for fifteen years in New York,
whence he moved to Owego, Tioga county, where he remained a year.
From 0-\vego he went to Wellsville, Allegany county, where he has
had a successful career. He was born in 1859 and married Miss
Nettie Baker, daughter of William and Melissa Baker. They have
living two daughters and two sons: Sadie, Harry, Gladys and
Ardeen. Sadie is the wife of Professor D. Lowell, principal of
schools at Wyoming, New York. Harry, of Wellsville, is a student
at Syracuse University. Gladys is a member of her parents' house-
hold in Wellsville.

From the time he became of school age until in 1898, Ardeen
Eichmond attended the public schools. Then he entered Syracuse
University, where he was graduated with the A. B. degree in 1902.
In 1904 he began the study of medicine in the same institution and
in 1908, after a four years' course, was graduated with the medical
doctor's degree. He came to Wayland in July of the year last

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mentioned and began the practice of his profession in partnership
with Dr. Peabody. Since November 15, 1907, he has been in inde-
pendent practice. His preparation for his profession being thor-
ough and his devotion to it very great, he has won a success of which
any physician and surgeon might well be proud. He is a member
of the Phi Beta Pi Medical Fraternity, a national institution; of
the Steuben County Medical Society and of other professional bodies
and is examining surgeon for the Metropolitan, Prudential, New
York Mutual and New Y'ork Life Insurance companies.

Dr. Richmond married, January 25, 1903, Miss Martha Knick-
erbocker, adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Knickerbocker of
Port Allegheny, New York. Mrs. Richmond was born November 15,
18S5, in Naples, Ontario county, New York. Her parents died when
she was but an infant and she was taken to the home and the hearts
of Mr. and Mrs. Knickerbocker when she was three years old. She
has borne her husband two sons : Dexter Eugene Richmond, Decem-
ber 10, 1906, and Hugh Norris Richmond, July 20, 1909.

Geokge M. Hemmee, bookkeeper at the First National Bank,
Wayland, Steuben county. New York, was born April 5, 1884, at
Perkinsville, New York, a son of Valentine and Elizabeth (Ballin-
ger) Hemmer, who are now living at Wayland. They became the
parents of ten children, of whom the immediate subject of this
sketch wa? the eldest except one. He was educated in the public
schools and entered the service of the First National Bank of Way-
land as a clerk when little more than a boy and has risen to be
bookkeeper and assistant cashier. He is a communicant of the
Catholic church of Wayland and is identified with the Modern
Woodmen of America. Though he has definite ideas as to the
merits and demerits of every economic question before the people
and faithfully does his duty as a citizen, he has no liking for prac-
tical nolitics and takes no active part in political work.

Mr. Hemmer married, September 22, 1908, Miss Lillian Hotter,
daughter of John Hotter, a farmer at Springwater, Livingston
county. New York. Mrs. Hemmer, who was born in March, 1889,
bore her husband a son, Kenneth, on March 5, 1910. She, too, is a
member of the Roman Catholic church.

To all matters affecting the development and prosperity of
Wayland and its tributary territory :\[r. Hemmer is thoroughly
alive. There is no measure proposed for the benefit of any con-
siderable number of his fellow citizens that does not have his hearty
and generous support.

Oklaxdo W. Suttox, M. B.—X gentleman whom Bath is happy
to term a representative citizen is Dr. Orlando W. Sutton, physician,
surgeon and postmaster of the capital of Steuben county and one
of the leading Republicans of the county. Dr. Sutton is .amply
qualified to enjoy the confidence and esteem of his associates, and
several public offices have been bestowed upon him, among them
the presidency of the village of Bath. He is a native son of the

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HISTORY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY 813

Empire State, his nativity having occnrred at Bradford, Steuhen
county, on Christmas day of the year 1849. His father, Edwin W.
Sutton, was a native of New Jersey and of English descent, who
pursued the vocation of a merchant tailor with success and who was
called to the life eternal in the year 1887, when in his sixty-fourth
year. He married Huldah Hopkins, of Bradford, New York, and
of their four sons Dr. Sutton was the first in order of birth.

Early in life Orlando W. Sutton found himself in possession
of certain natural inclinations toward the medical profession, and
accordingly he began his preparation for this high and useful call-
ing in the year 186.5, when a youth only about sixteen years of age.
His preparations were interrupted from time to time, for he found
it expedient to engage in other occupations meantime, and after
serving eight years as deputy postmaster of Bath and two years in
the railway mail service he completed his studies, being graduated
from the Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York. He
first hung out his shingle at Bath and has ever since remained hero,
biiilding up a practice and acting as the kindly friend and doctor
of hundreds of families.

As previously suggested. Dr. Sutton is devoted to the interests
of the Republican party and is ever ready to do anything, to go
anywhere to promote the cause to which he has given his heart ever
since he became, by reason of attaining his majority, able to cast
his vote. He has been chairman and secretary of the Republican
County Committee, president of the village of Bath, trustee of the
village, member of the New York State Board of ]\Iedical Exam-
iners, secretary and treasurer of the Southern Tier Medical Societv
and has given efficient service as coroner for a period of three terms.
He is public-spirited, progressive, altruistic and ever ready to lend
a hand to any measure likely to result in good to the whole body
politic. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and of the Masonic
fraternity and finds no small amount of pleasure in these fraternal
relations.

In 1898 Dr. Sutton was appointed postmaster of Bath, and he
has held this office ever since that time, having proven himself one
of the most faithful and efficient of Uncle Sam's servants. He still
engages in the practice of his profession and keeps in touch with
the latest investigations in the science of which he is an exponent.
Since his appointment to the postmastership the service has greatlv
improved and has proved eminently satisfactory to the people of
Bath and the surrounding country.

' In 1877 Dr. Sutton laid the foundation of a happy married
life by his union with Susan, daughter of Daniel M. Coss, and the
issue of the marriage is a son, Frederic C, who resides in Bath, New
York, and is at present connected with the Bath postoffice.

Lucius A. Waldo. — Another of the native sons of Steuben
county who has achieved success in connection with the work of the
legal profession in the city of New York is Mr. Waldo, who is
attornev for the Excise Reinsurance Association, with headquarters

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at 96 Broadwa}'. He was born in Prattsburg, Steuben county, on
the 22nd of February, 1865, and is a son of Daniel D. and Hannah
(M.) Waldo. Daniel D. Waldo was born at Edmeston, Otsego
county. New York, and he took up his residence in Steuben county
about 1860. . He became one of the prominent members of the bar
of that county, where he continued in the practice of his profession
until his death, which occurred in 1879, at which tim^ he was but
forty-two years of age. He was an active and influential factor in
public affairs of a local order.

Lucius A. Waldo has achieved success in the profession which
was honored and dignified by the services of his father, and his early
educational training was secured in Franklin Academy of his native
place, where he remained until he was fifteen years of age, when he
removed to Bath in the same county, where he continued to maintain
his home until 1897. At Bath he studied law, being admitted to
the bar in 1891, in the city of Eochester. Thereafter he was en-
gaged in the practice of his profession at Bath, until 1897, when he
removed to New York city and engaged in the general practice of
his profession, in which his success has been on a parity with his
recognized ability. He has been attorney for the Excise Eeinsur-
ance Association since 1908. He is a member of the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York, and he manifests his continued
interest in his native county by his membership in Steuben County
Society of the national metropolis. Mr. Waldo has been an active
and effective factor in connection with political affairs, is a stanch
adherent of the Republican party and has been called upon to serve
in various local offices, besides which he was stenographer of the
state senate in 1894-5.

In the year 1907 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Waldo
to Miss Mabel Allen, of Paterson, New Jersey.

Rev. Caelton H. Norkis, Ph. D. — The able and honored pas-
tor of the Methodist Episcopal church in the village of Wayland
is one of the well known representatives of this religious denomina-
tion in the Genesee Conference, and in his various pastorates he has
labored with all of zeal and devotion in the guiding and uplifting
of his fellow-men. The more interest attaches to his services in his
present incumbency from the fact that he is a native son of Steuben
county and also on account of the fact that his paternal grandfather
was a pioneer minister and "circuit rider" of this section of the
state.

Rev. Carlton Henry Norris was born on the old Norris home-
stead, in Bath township, Steuben county, on the 27th of February,
1852. His father. Case Norris, was born in Middlesex township,
Chenango county. New York, on the 26th of January, 1830. He
was a son of Rev. Peter and Fedilia (Case) Norris, the former of
whom was born at Catskill, Green county, this state, on the 28th of
February, 1796, and the latter of whom was born in Canandaigua,
New York, on the 14th of November, 1804. Both passed the closing

HISTOEY OP STEUBEF COUNTY 815

years of their lives in Steuben county, where the father died on the
3d of July, 1881, and the mother on the 4th of May, 1886. Eev.
Peter Norris came to Steuben county in an early day and settled
on what is now known as the Wheeler homestead in Bath township.
There he secured one hundred and fifty acres of land and developed
a productive farm, upon which he continued to reside until his
death. He was a clergyman of the Wesleyan Methodist church
and in his earlier life endured the vicissitudes and hardships which
came to the circuit rider in his ministerial work.

Case Norris accompanied his parents on their removal to Steu-
ben county, and after his school days he. continued to be associated
in the work and management of the home farm until his marriage,
at the age of nineteen years. He then settled one mile east of the
parental home, and hjs original domicile was a log house of the
primitive type. In addition to working his own farm he also had
charge of the operation of the old Wheeler homestead for two years.
He became one of the successful agriculturists of Bath township,
was a man of insuperable integrity and honor in all the relations
of life and he continued to reside on his old homestead until his
death, which occurred on the 16th of January, 1899, at which time
he was seventy-nine years of age. He was for fully half a century
a zealous and "consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
in which he served as steward and trustee. His name is held in
reverent memory by all who came within the sphere of his influence,
and the same is true concerning his cherished and devoted wife. On
the 4th of December, 1839, was solemmized his marriage to Miss
Samantha Wheeler, who was born in Bath township, this county,
July 9, 1820, and who was a daughter of Jeremiah and Sally
(Glover) Wheeler, the former of whom was born on the 11th of
March, 1797, and the latter in the year 1799, at Salem, Washington
county. New York. The wife of Case Norris survived him by only
four days, and thus in death they were not divided. She was sum-
moned to the life eternal on the 20th of January, 1899. Besides
the subject of this review they are survived by two sons and one
daughter— Bertha Aldrich, of the city of Chicago; Wlieeler Nor-
ris is likewise a resident of the great western metropolis; and Eev.
Myron Lee Norris, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church,
is "at the present time (l"910) incumbent of a pastoral charge at

Chicago. 1 . •

Eev. Carlton Henry Norris gained his early educational tram-
ino- in the public schools of Steuben county, and this discipline in-
cluded a course in the high school at Bath. In this institution he
was graduated when sixteen years of age, and in 1876 he was gradu-
ated at Lima, New York. He prosecuted his higher academic
studies at Alfred University, New York, in which he was graduated
in the class of 1888 and from which he received his degree of Bache-
lor of Arts. In 1891 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree
of Master of Arts, and in 1893 he received from Syracuse University
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. His ecclesiastical course was

816 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN" COUNTY

taken at Evanston, Illinois, Garrett Biblical Institute. He joined
the Genesee Conference in 1882 and was ordained an elder of the
same conference in 1884. Mr. Norris began his pastoral career prior
to his graduation at Alfred University, and his first charge was at
Clarence, Erie county, New York, where he began his labors in 1883
and where he remained for three years. His other pastorates are
here briefly noted in successive order, with respective periods of
service : Fort Allegany, three years ; Friendship, Allegany county,
three years; Gowanda, Cattaraugus county, five years; Akron, Erie
county, five years; Brockport, Monroe county, five years; and Oak-
field, Genesee county, one year. From Oakfield Mr. Norris was
assigned by his conference to the pastorate of the church at Way-
land, in 1907, and he has found special satisfaction in his pastoral
work in his native county. He has administered the temporal and
spiritual affairs of the church at Wayland with marked discrimina-
tion and zeal, and all departments of the church work have been
vitalized and advanced under his effective regime.

Mr. Norris takes a deep interest in matters of public import
and keeps himself well informed concerning the questions and issues
of the hour, the while he gives his allegiance to the Eepublican
party. He is an appreciative member of the time-honored Masonic
fraternity, in which his affiliations are with Monroe Lodge No. 173,
F. & A. M., at Eochester; with Daniel Holmes Chapter No. 294,
E. A. i\I., at Brockport ; with Mintral Commandery, Knights Tem-
plars, in the city of Eochester; and Damascus Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in the same city.

In 1879 was solemnized the marriage of ilr. Norris to Miss
Hattie A. Morton, of Angelica, Allegany county. New York. She
was born at West Alman, this state, on the 28th of December, 1856,
and is a daughter of George and Harriet (Powers) Morton, the
father deceased, but the mother is yet living, aged ninety years.
Mrs. Norris, like her husband, was afforded the advantages of Alford
University, in which she was graduated as a member of the class
of 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Norris have one daughter, Olive Bertha.
She was born in Clarence, New York, on the 23d of September, 1884,
and is now the wife of Eoy E. Brockett. Mr. and Mrs. Brockett
have two children, Gertrude La Eene and Olive Zoe. Eoy E: Brock-
ett, M. E., is a son of Eansom J. and Elvira (Bliss) Brockett, of
Angelica, New York. He is now living in Buffalo, New York, and
is an insurance engineer. He received his degree from Syracuse
University, class of 1905.

■Chaeles p. EoBiNSOiSr. — Again it is a privilege to accord recog-
nition in this work to another of the native sons of Steuben county
who have gained prestige as a member of the bar of New York city,
and Mr. Eobinson is successfully established in the practice of his
profession, with offices at 2 Eector street.

Mr. Eobinson was born at Hornell, Steuben county, on the 17th
of October, 1879, and is a son of Frank Hurd Eobinson, concerning
whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work, so

HISTOEY OP STEUBElSr COUNTY 817

that further reference to the family history is not demanded in the
present connection. Charles P. Eobinson gained his early educa-
tional discipline in the public schools and supplemented this by a
course in Canisteo Academy, in his native county. Thereafter he
continued as a student in Hamilton College until 1897, when he
entered historic old Yale University, in which he was graduated as
a member of the class of 1900 and from which he received the de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts. After his graduation he studied law in
the office of his father at Plornell for one year and at the expiration
of this period he was matriculated in the New .York Law School,
from which he was graduated with honors in 1903, with the degree
of Bachelor of Laws. Por the following eighteen months he was
engaged in professional work in the office of Edward H. Pallows,
attorney for the state C9mptroller, at 170 Broadway, New York
city, and in 1905 he establisJied himself in the general practice ol
his profession in New York city, where he has shown such energy
and abilitv as to gain to him definite and pronounced success. Ho
is at present a member of the firm iff Kindlcberger & Eobinson, Mr.
Kiudleberger having been an assistant corporation counsel of New
York city and an assistant in the district attorney's office under Hon.
William Travers Jerome, ilr. Eobinson is a member of the Yale
Club and the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn. He was a corporal
in the Seventh Kegiment of the New York National Guard. Mr.
Eobinson has been an enthusiastic worker in behalf of the cause of
the Eepublican party and has been influential in its councils. He
was elected a member of the New York County Committee and is the
secretary of the district committee of the twenty-fifth assembly
district. He also holds membership in the Madison Square Eepub-
lican Club, besides which he is affiliated with the Masonic fra-
ternity.

Geovek C. Shepakd.— ilr. Shepard is numbered among the
popular and progressive young business men of Steuben county and
is incumbent of the position of bookkeeper in the Pirst National
Bank of Wayland. He was born at Chaumont, Jefferson county.
New York, on the 19th of June, 1884, and is a son of A. James and
Fannie (Waite) Shepard. The father was born at Cape Vmcent,
Jefferson county, in 1849, and he died at Chaumont, that county,
in 1909. As a mere boy he became a skilled engineer, and later
he became a marine engineer, in which capacity he was employed on
the Great Lakes for several years. He finally located at Chaumont,
in his native county, where he was successfully engaged m the
grocery and bakery business for thirty years, durmg a considerable
portion of which period his sons were associated with him in the
enterprise. He was a stalwart supporter of the principles ana pol-
icies of the Democratic partv, and that he was a great admirer ot
Grover Cleveland, one of the great exponents of the cause ot that
party needs no further voucher than the fact that he named one of
his sons, the immediate subject of this review, m honor of that
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818 mSTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

distingiaished former president of the United States. He was in-
fluential in the local work of his party and was one of the well known
and highly honored citizens of his native county. He was an ap-
preciative member of the Masonic fraternity, with which he was
identified for many years prior to his death, and he passed the
official chairs in both his lodge and chapter. He served for many years
as township supervisor and he was liberal and progressive as a
citizen. In Jefferson county was solemnized the marriage of A.
James Shepard to Miss Fannie Waite, who was born and reared m
that eountv and who still maintains her home at Chaumont. She is
a daughter of the late Horace and Eliza (Smith) Waite, who passed
the closing years of their lives in Chautauqua county, Kansas, where
the father long served in the office of the justice of the peace. The
children of Mr. and Mrs. A. James Shepard are: Grover Cleveland
Shepard, whose name initiates this review ; Fannie, who remains with
her widowed mother at the old homestead in Chaumont ; Charles E.
is employed as a marine engineer on the Great Lakes; William N.
is engaged in a mercantile buflness and remains at the maternal
home ; and Louis W. and Horace J. are likewise engaged in business
in their native town.

Grover Cleveland Shepard was afforded the advantages o± the
public schools of Chaumont and supplemented this discipline by a
course in a business college at Watertown, New York, where he pur-
sued his studies for eighteen months. For some time thereafter he
was incumbent of clerical positions in offices in his native town and
finally he became identified with his father's business. On the 10th
of February, 1910, he came to Wayland and assumed the position
of bookkeeper in the First National Bank, in which he has proved
a careful and efficient executive, gaining the confidence and esteem
of the stockholders and directors of the institution. i.. , u-

Mr. Shepard has never repudiated the principles for which his
Christian name stands significant and is aligned as a stanch supporter
of the cause of the Democratic party. He is a member of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church, in whose faith he was reared, and he is
affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the

Masonic fraternity. . ■> ,, • t

On the 1st of January, 1907, was solemnized the marriage ot
Mr Shepard to Miss Lulu Silver, who was born at Chaumont, Jeffer-
son county, on the 1st of August, 1886, and who is a daughter of
Chester and Clista (Hogeboom) Silver, who still reside m that coun-
ty, where the father is a prosperous farmer. Mrs. Shepard has one
sister. Pearl, who remains at the parental home. Mr. and Mrs. Shep-
ard are popular in connection with the best social activities of their
home town and both hold membership in the local Methodist Episco-
pal church.

George K. Sutherland has gained prestige as one of the suc-
ce'^sful financiers and progressive business men of the national me-
tropolis and his banking house is located at 49 Wall street. He was

HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 819

formerly an influential factor in connection with business inter-
ests in Steuben county and has been prominently identified with the
Steuben County Society of New York city, of which he has served
as president. Mr. Sutherland has also served with marked distinction
as a member of the legislature of his native state and is well equipped
for leadership in this field, but found it expedient to decline further
political honors in order to devote his attention to his large and
important capitalistic interests.

George E. Sutherland was born at Candor, Tioga county. New
York, on the 21st of October, 1848, and is a son of Leander and Eliza
Sutherland, both of whom were representatives of sterling Eevolu-
tionary families. The maternal great-grandfather of Mr. Sutherland
was George Robertson, who was a commissioned officer in the Con-
tinental army during the great struggle that gained the boon of in-
dependence to the nation. Mr. Sutherland availed himself of the
advantages of the schools of the locality in which he was born and
as a young man he removed to Steuben county and established his
home in the town of Campbell. He represented this town as a
member of the county board of supervisors for a number of years
and during the latter part of his services in this connection he was
chairman of the board. In 1878 he was elected to represent the
Second assembly district of Steuben county in the state legislature
and he was chosen as his own successor in 1879. During his term
in the general assembly he was a member of the ways and means com-
mittee and was assigned to other important duties, besides which he
was an active and valued factor in the deliberations of both the
fioor and the committee room. Concerning his services in the leg-
islature the following statements have been made: "He took an
active interest in all legislation relating to educational matters and
state charities. The urgency of business demands obliged him to
decline further political honors, disappointing his many friends who
still desired him to represent them in the legislature."'

In the year 1878, soon after establishing his home in Steuben
county, i\fr. Sutherland there founded the Bank of Campbell, which
has continued to maintain high prestige during the long intervening
years and with which he is still actively concerned. In 1888 Mr. Suth-
erland removed to New York city, where he has since been actively and
successfully engaged in the banking business, conducting a private
banking house at 49 Wall street. For several years he was a member
of the board of trustees of the Soldiers & Sailors' Home, at Bath,
Steuben county, and for three years he was treasurer of the Steuben
Countv Society in New York city. He holds membership in the
Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and
was a member of the Hudson-Pulton celebration commission. He
has served as trustee and executor of several large estates and as coun-
selor is often sought by those desiring to invest capital with a view
to the best possible returns consistent with absolute safety. Mr.
Sutherland during the past several years has been actively concerned
with building and loan associations and through this medium has

820 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

done much to further the material and civic progress in New York
city and other parts of the state. He is a stanch Republican in his
political allegiance and is identified with various civic and fraternal
organizations aside from those already mentioned.

Leon G. Godlet. — It is pleasing to give evidence through va-
rious personal sketches appearing in this volume of the fact that a
goodly quota of the native sons of Steuben county have had the am-
bition and ability to gain a secure place among the substantial mem-
bers of the bar of New York city and in this category is to be
classified Mr. Godley, who is there engaged in successful practice.
He is serving as assistant corporation counsel of Greater New York
and this fact indicates his professional ability, as well as his personal
popularity. Leon G. Godley was born in the village of Curtis, Steu-
ben county, on the 5th of April, 1877, and is a son of David and
j\Iary (Chapin) Godley, the former of whom was likewise born in
Steuben county, v,-here he continued to maintain his home until his
death in 1908, and the mother still resides in that county, which
has been her home from the time of her nativity. Of the six children
three are now living and Leon G. is the elder of the two sons.

Mr. Godley gained his early educational discipline in the public
schools of his native county and later continued his studies in a
business college. He initiated his business career as an employe in
the offices of the firm of Herendeen & Mandeville, of Elmira, New
York, and in 1895 he removed to New York city, where, in 1897, he
became private secretary to Edward M. Shepard, one of the leaders
of the bar of the city. He retained this incumbency about twelve
years and in the meanwhile began the study of law, in connection with
which he finally entered the law department of St. Lawrence
University at Brooklyn, in which institution he was graduated as a
member of the class of 190S. Ho was forthwith admitted to the bar
and he has since continued in the active work of his profession in
New York city, where he has also been incumbent of the office of
assistant corporation counsel of the city since 1910. He has been
a close and appreciative student of his profession and his knowledge
of the science of jurisprudence is broad and exact, a fact which has
received distinctive recognition as he is now serving as a member of
the faculty of the law department of his Alma Mater, St. Lawrence
University. In politics Mr. Godley is a stanch adherent of the Demo-
cratic party and he has given yeoman service in behalf of its cause.
He is an appreciative member of the Steuben Society of New York
city; he is past master of Orion Lodge, No. 717, Free & Accepted
Masons, in the city of Brooklyn, where he maintains his home, and
there he also holds membership in the Crescent Club. He is also
affiliated with the Theta Phi law fraternity.

Raymond V. Ingeesoll. — At 261 Broadway, New York city,
are located the law offices of Mr. Ingersoll, who has gained a place as
one of the well fortified members of the bar of the national metropolis
and who likewise has beeh a resourceful factor in connection with

HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 821

political affairs in his native state, especially in Greater New York.
He maintains his home in Brooklyn, New York, and there he
served for some time as municipal judge. Mr. Ingersoll was born
at Corning, Steuben county, on the 3d of April, 1875, and is a son
of Andrew J. and Ellen (Vail) Ingersoll, the former of whom was
likewise a native of Steuben county, where the family was founded
in the pioneer days and the latter of whom was bom in New
Jersey. Andrew J. Ingersoll owned and conducted for many
years a health resort, known as Pinewood Sanitarium, in his
native county and he was an honored and influential citizen who ever
showed a loyal interest in all that touched the welfare of the com-
munity. He died at the age of seventy-five years and his wife passed
away at the age of sixty-eight years. Of their seven children Eay-
mond V. was the sixth in order of birth and of the number four are
now living.

Eaymond V. Ingersoll availed himself of the advantages afforded
in the public schools of his native county, including the local
academy, and he then entered Amherst College, in which he was
graduated as a member of the class of 1897, andf from which he
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For one year thereafter he
was employed as a teacher in a high school at Duluth, Minnesota, and
he then began the work of preparing himself for his chosen profes-
sion. He returned to his native state and entered the New York Law
School, in the city of New York, in which he completed the prescribed
technical course and was graduated in the class of 1900, receiving
his degree of Bachelor of Laws. Since that time he has been actively
engaged in general practice in the national metropolis. In politics
he has been a zealous worker in the interests of the independent
Democratic contingent in various city campaigns of Greater New
York and in 1901 he was elected city magistrate of the borough of
Brooklyn, where he maintains his home. He also served as a member
of the commission appointed by the appellate court to examine can-
didates seeking admission to the bar of the state, this preferment
having come to him in 1903, and in 1906 and 1907 he served as
counsel to the Eegister of Kings county. He also assisted in the
organization of the celebrated "committee of one hundred," which
assumed leadership in the New York city campaign of 1909 and he
was made chairman of both the campaign and executive committees
of this body. Mr. Ingersoll is a member of the Steuben County
Society of New York city, is a member of the directorate of the
Legal Aid Society and he is one of the directors of the United
Neighborhood Guild, which has charge of the work of three effective
social settlements in Brooklyn, where it also does a large amount of
general philanthropical work. He is also a member of the board of
trustees of the Brooklyn League and in addition to his professional
associations he has various business interests.

On the 29th of September, 1908, Mr. Ingersoll was united in
marriage to Miss Marion Crary, of Warren, Pennsylvania. They have
no children.

822 HISTORY OF STETJBEN COUNTY

Maynakd H. Eosenkkans. — One of the prosperous business
men and highly esteemed citizens of Wayland, where he controls a
successful enterprise as a painter and decorator and where he has
also given considerable attention to dealing in real estate, is Mr.
Eosenkrans, who is a native of Steuben county, which has represented
his home from the time of his nativity. He was born in Wayland
township on the 16th of July, 1863, and is a son of Hamilton S.
and Helen M. (Davis) Eosenkrans, both of whom continued to re-
side in this county until the death of the father, and the mother still
lives here. Here the father devoted the major portion of his active
career to farming and real estate operations and he ever commanded
a secure place in popular confidence and esteem. Of the children
Maynard H. was the oldest in order of birth and concerning the other
surviving children the following brief data are given: Laverne is
individually mentioned on other pages of this work; Merton J. is a
resident of Wayland ; Jennie J. is the wife of Herbert Goodenow, who
resides in the city of Rochester, New York, and who is a printer
by vocation and Hattie is the wife of Hugh McKay, who is a farmer
and gardener in the vicinity of Drewry's BlufE, Southampton county,
Virginia.

Maynard H. Eosenkrans is indebted to the public schools of
Steuben county for his early educational discipline and when eighteen
years of age he initiated his independent career, as a dealer in farm
products, a line of enterprise with which he continued to be identified
for a period of five years. He then perfected himself in the paint-
ing and decorating trades and in this line of enterprise he has for
many years controlled n large and substantial business as a eon-
tractor. The high grade of his work and his fidelity to all agree-
ments having gained to him the unqualified confidence of all with
whom he has had dealings. He is the owner of farm property in
Wayland tovmship and has also been successful in the handling of
real estate, with which line of enterprise he is still connected. He is
known as one of the progressive and public-spirited citizens of the
village of Wayland and has been identified with its fire department
for nearly a quarter of a century. He is a charter member of the
original volunteer fire department, which was organized in 1883 and
which in the early years of its existence utilized the Babcock fire
extinguishers. He is now a member of the Wayland Hose Company
and it is to be noticed that the facilities and equipment of the de-
partment have been brought up to a fine modern standard. In
politics Mr. Eosenkrans is aligned as a stanch supporter of the prin-
ciples and policies of the Democratic party and he has been a zealous
worker in its local ranks, having attended its conventions in his coun-
ty and congressional district and having also served on the election
board of Wayland township, as well as constable and census enu-
merator. Both he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist
Episcopal church and in the community that has so long represented
their home their circle of friends is coincident with that of their
acquaintances.

HISTOEY OF STETJBEjSI' COFNTY 823

On the 8th of January, 1888, Mr. Rosenkrans was united in
marriage to Miss Eose Eyan, who was born at Arkport, this county,
on the 29th of October, 1870, and who is a daughter of Jeremiah
and Elizabeth (Lindsey) Eyan, the former of whom died at Cuba,
Allegany county, New York, in 1890, at the age of sixty-two years,
and the latter of whom died in 1877, at the age of thirty-five years,
being survived by five children. Concerning the other children it
may be stated that Catherine is the wife of Daniel Pike, a farmer of
Steuben county; Stella is the wife of Thomas Dunn, of Syracuse,
New York; and Frank is a manufacturer of New Zealand and
Australia. The father of Mrs. Eosenkrans was a blacksmith and
wagon-maker by trade and he was a valiant soldier of the Union in
the Civil war, in which he served during practically the entire period
of the great conflict. Mrs. Rosenkrans was a child of seven years at
the time of her mothei-'s death and she was reared in the home of a
Mr. Campbell, of Livingston county, where she remained until the
time of her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Rosenkrans have three children,
whose nalnes and respective dates of birth are here noted: Paul L.,
born in 1890, attends the Wireless Telegraph School at Valparaiso,
Indiana, and Hugh Hamilton, born in 1894 and Helen Marian, in
1896, are attending the public schools of Wayland.

Augustus dePeystbr PIaelow. — Numbered among the progres-
sive business men of the younger generation in the national me-
tropolis is Mr. Harlow, who is here engaged in- the manufacturing
of food products with headquarters at 474 Greenwich street. He is
a scion of old and honored families of the Empire state and was
born at Bath, Steuben county, on the 30th of December, 1872, a
son of Straton and Sarah E. (Dudley) Harlow, the former of whom
was born in Genesee county, New York, and the latter at Bath,
Steuben county, where she still maintains her home and where the
father died when thirty-six years of age. Of the children, the sub-
ject of this review is the only one who attained to years of maturity.
He is indebted to the public schools of his native place for his early
educational discipline and as a young man he entered the employ of
the Long-Distance Telephone Company, with which he continued
to be connected for ten years and for the greater portion of the
period he was special agent for the company and traveled extensively
in its interests, in the meanwhile maintaining his official headquar-
ters in New York city. In 1903 he joined the forces of J. W.
Beardsley's Sons, manufacturers of various food products. The
well equipped establishment is located at 474 Greenwich street, New
York city. In politics Mr. Harlow gives his allegiance to the Re-
publican party and he is an appreciative member of the Steuben
County Society of New York city, besides which he is affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity.

In the year 1903 Mr. Harlow was united in marriage to Miss
Henrietta C. Beardsley, who was born and reared in Newark, New
Jersey, and they have one son, John Dudley.

824 HISTORY OF STETTBEX COUNTY

Charles Ingeesol DeWitt was born in Wells, Bradford coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1849, the oldest son of D. Barnett and
Eebeeca Jane DeWitt. He was married to Mary Jane Knapp,
daughter of Annanias and Rachel Knapp, February 20, 1872. Soon
after they were married they moved to Bath, New York, where were
born to them four sons, Harry B., Eugene Knapp, Harry, and Paul
A. Later the home was changed to Hornellsville, until it was broken
up on the death of the mother November 29, 1896, at Elmira. The
oldest son had died in infancy and the other three were separated
when the home was broken up. The father was murdered under
mysterious circumstances at Norwich, New York, January 18, 1903.
Harry died following an operation for appendicitis August 14, 1906,
at the home of George W. Wolfe with whom he had made his home
for ten years.

Eugene K. DeWitt was born May 6, 1877. He completed his
course at Hornell High School in 1903; Alfred University in 1908;
and McCormiek Theological Seminary in 1911. He and his wife,
who was formerly Elmina Georgiana Titsworth, the only daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Alfred A. Titsworth of New Brunswick, New Jersey,
are now engaged in missionary work among the Mohammedans in
Bast Persia.

Paul A. DeWitt was born February 28, 1883. Although com-
pelled to leave school at an early age, he has improved his oppor-
tunities and by reason of his retention as manager of the Wayland
branch of the Huguet Silk Company has shown what one can do by
keeping everlastingly at it. He entered the employ of Merrill Field
& Co. as a weaver and has been advanced until now he has charge of
the important branch at Wayland, which was started under his su-
pervision in 1907. Mr. DeWitt removed with his family to Wayland
upon assuming his present office and he and his wife are valued
and popular factors in connection with the social and church activities
of their home town. Though taking an active interest in all that
tends to advance the general welfare of the community and to con-
serve good government Mr. DeWitt is not a strong partisan in
politics.

On the 19th of December, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of
Paul A. DeWitt to Miss Lelia Evelyn Emory, a daughter of Myron
C. Emory one of the representative farmers and honored citizens of
Cortland county. Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt have one son, x\lbert Knapp,
who was bom February 20, 1908.

Heney Ginnane.— One of the representative younger members
of the. bar of New York city who has been contributed to the na-
tional metropolis by fine old Steuben eoimty is Henry Ginnane, who
is established in the successful practice of his profession with office
headquarters at 100 William street. Mr. Ginnane wag born at Addi-
son, Steuben county, on the 15th of November, 1880, and is a son of
Jeremiah and Susan (Hurley) Ginnane, who still reside at Addison,
where the father is now living retired. He is one of the well Imown

HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 835

citizens of Steuben county, where he is held in high esteem. Both
he and his wife were born in Ireland and are representatives of
stanch old families of the fair Emerald Isle. Upon establishing his
home in Steuben county Jeremiah Ginnane first located in the village
of Eathbone, where he engaged in the work of his trade until his
removal to Addison, where he has resided for the long intervening
years. Both the parents and their eight children are living. He
whose name initiates this review is the youngest of the children.

Henry Ginnane was reared to the age of nineteen years in his .
native town, where he duly availed himself of the advantages of the
public schools, including the high school. He then entered the law
department of Buffalo University, in the city of Buffalo. In this
fine institution he completed the prescribed technical course and was
graduated as a member of the class of 1903, duly receiving his well
earned degree of Bachelor of Laws and also being admitted to the
bar of his native state. He had previously ' initiated the study of
law under the preceptorship of Delmar W. Darrin, a prominent
member of the bar of Steuben county. He was admitted to the bar
in the city of Buffalo, in January, 1903, and for the following three
years he was there engaged in professional work, in the law offices of
the firm of Cox, Kernan & Kimball. He then removed to New York
city, where he became an attache of the legal department of the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company, for which he acted as assistant
attorney about one year. Since that time he has been a member of
the legal staff of the Aetna Life Insurance Company, besides which
he gives his attention to the private practice of his profession, for
which he has proved himself admirably fortified. He is a member of
the New York County Lawyers' Association, is affiliated with the
Delta Chi Law Fraternity, and holds membership in the Knights of
Columbus and the Steuben County Society of the metropolis.

Edgar A. Lewis. — As principal of the high school at Wayland,
Professor Lewis is prominently and successfully identified with
educational work in Steuben county and he is thoroughly en rapport
with his profession, in which his success has been of unequivocal
order.

Edgar Alexander Lewis was born near Smithville, Jefferson
county. New York, on the 8th of November, 1869, and is a son of
Edgar and Nellie M. (McNeill) Lewis, who still reside on their fine
homestead farm near Bellville, where the father took up his resi-
dence when a young man. Edgar Lewis served as a gallant soldier
of the Union during the Civil war and he manifests his continued
interest in his old comrades by retaining membership in the Grand
Armv of the Republic, whose ranks are being so rapidly thinned by
the one invincible foe of humanity. The only child is Edgar A.,
whose name initiates this review.

Professor Lewis passed his boyhood days on the home farm and
his rudimentary education was secured in the district schools. At the
age of fourteen he entered Union Academy, at Bellville, Jefferson

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county, in which institution he was graduated in 1891, after which
he taught in the district schools for three years. He then, in 1893,
was matriculated in Brown University, at Providence, where he con-
tinued his studies about two years and in the meanwhile he con-
tinued his successful efforts in the pedagogic profession. In 189G
he entered Colgate University, in which he was graduated as a mem-
ber of the class of 1898 and from which he received his degree of
Bachelor of Philosophy. For the ensuing year he was engaged as a
teacher in the public schools of Bellville, in his native county, and
for four years thereafter he was similarly engaged at Broadalbin,
Fulton county, where he remained until 1903, when he assumed his
present position as principal of the high school at Wayland. His
long retention of this incumbency stands as the best voucher for the
efficiency of his work, as well as for the public estimate placed upon
him. He has done much to bring the high school up to a high stand-
ard and is indefatigable and enthusiastic in all departments of his
work. Both he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist
Episcopal church and he is a member of the official board of the
church of this denomination in Wayland. Professor Lewis is also
affiliated with Warren Patehin Lodge, No. 883, Free & Accepted
Masons.

In the year 1901 was solemnized the marriage of Professor
Lewis to Miss Minnie Elizabeth Eosendale, who was born at St.
Johnsville, Montgomery county. New York, and who is a daughter of
Ijawrence Eosendale, a native of Germany, whence he emigrated to
America when a young man ; he and his wife have both passed away,
the father dying in California in June, 1910, and the mother in
1894. i[rs. Lewis was graduated in the high school of her native
town and also took a special normal course, after which she was a
successful and popular teacher in the public schools until the time
of her marriage and for four years afterward. She is a woman of
gracious presence and is a popular factor in the best social activities
of the community, as well as an earnest worker in the Methodist
Episcopal church at Wayland. Professor and Mrs. Lewis have no
children.

Lewis F. Wilson. — Steuben county has not failed to contribute
its due quota to the professional and business circles of New York
city and he whose name initiates this sketch may properly be accorded
recognition as a successful member of the bar of the national me-
tropolis, where his labors have not only been creditable to himself but
also to the county of his nativity.

Mr. Wilson was born at Corning, Steuben county, on the 13th
of November, 1867, and is a son of Benjamin Carr Wilson, who was
born at Cooperstown, Otsego county, this state, and who was for
upwards of twenty years engaged in the clothing business at Addison,
Steuben county. He served as a gallant soldier of the Union in the
Civil war and was made lieutenant of his company. He died in 1888,
at Auburn, New York, where he had resided for about a year at about

HIiSTOEY OF STEUBEX COmSTTY 837

fifty-five years of age. He was a stanch Democrat in his political
proclivities, was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Eepublie and
his religious faith was that of^ the Episcopal church. His wife,
whose maiden name was Martha D. Biles, was born at Bath, Steuben
county, a daughter of Lewis Biles, who was one of the sterling
pioneers of that county, where he continued to reside until his
death, which occurred after he had attained to the venerable age of
seventy-nine years. He was of English lineage, and this is also true
of the Wilson family. The mother of Mr. Wilson is still living and
resides with the elder of her two sons, E. Carr Wilson, at La Gloria,
Cuba. The only daughter, Helen Elizabeth, died in New York city
in the year 1903.

Lewis F. Wilson, completed the curriculum of the public schools
of Addison, Steuben county, in 18S4 and he then went to Hornell,
that county, where he became a student in the law offices of I. W.
Near, under whose preceptorship he continued his studies for a
brief period. He then entered the law class of Bemis & Orcutt, in
the same city, where he continued his studies about two years. Upon
the death of the senior member of the firm, in 1889, Mr. Wilson re-
moved to New York city and entered the law office of Frank Sullivan
Smith and in 1893 he was admitted to the bar of his native state.
He continued to be associated in professional work with Mr. Smith
until 1901, and since that time he has given his attention largely to
the affairs of the Cuban Land & Steamship Company, of which he
is the president. He has been very successful in the development of
the interests of this corporation and the demands of the same are
such that he has largely withdrawn from the practice of his profes-
sion. He is also secretary of the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern
Eailroad Company, besides which he is president of the La Gloria
Transportation Company, which is concerned with the development
of the colony of La Gloria, Cuba. He is connected with other in-
terests of importance and is known as a business man of administra-
tive ability. He is a member of the Bar Association of New York
city, is an independent Democrat in politics and is a member of the
Steuben County Society of New York City.

On the 17th of April, 1901, Mr. Wilson wag united in marriage
to ^liss Marian Harper TJdall, daughter of Charles B. and Fredericka
(Folhauber) Udall, who was born at Dubuque, Iowa, where her par-
ents resided for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are the
parents of two children: Marian and Fairfield.

Daniel E. Burrows is identified with the operations of the Bor-
den Condensed Milk Company in New York ciiy, where the offices of
this popular corporation are located at 108 Hudson street. He was
born at Campbell, Steuben county, this state, on the 17th of January,
1866, and is a son of Josiah T. Burrows, who still resides in Camp-
bell, where for many years he was actively identified with con-
tracting and building, being a carpenter by trade. He is now serving
in the office of Justice of the peace and still continues to be more

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or less active in business affairs. His wife, whose maiden name was
Amanda Nute, was born and reared in Steuben county, where her
father settled in the pioneer days, and she died when comparatively
a young woman. Of the four children two are. deceased and of the
two surviving the subject of this review is the younger. His sister
Ijjtta is the wife of Charles H. Eygabroat and they reside at Campbell,
Steuben county.

Daniel E. Burrows is indebted to the public schools of his native
town for his early educational training, which was supplemented by
a course in a business college at Warren, Pennsylvania. He initiated
his active business career as a bookkeeper and in 1888 he became
identiiied with the Borden Condensed Milk Company, in whose em-
ploy he has continued as bookkeeper during the long intervening
period of a quarter of a century and he is a valued and trusted attache
of the company's offices in New York city. He is the owner of a
well improved farm in Orange county, New York, and has other
capitalistic investments of substantial order. His political support
is given to the Republican party and he is identified with the Steuben
County Society of New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Burrows are Pres-
byterian in their religious affiliations.

In August, 1888, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Burrows
to Miss Maude E. Blood, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania,
and the seven children of this union are Gail, Etta, Martha, Daniel,
Josiah, Charles and Alta. Gail, the eldest son, married Eose Brooks
and they reside on his father's farm in Orange county, this state.
They have one daughter, born November 8, 1910, Florence J. Bur-
rows.

Salem A. Maksh. — Numbered among the representative con-
tractors and builders of Steuben county is Mr. ilarsh, who is engaged
in business at Wayland and who controls a most prosperous enter-
prise in his chosen sphere of endeavor. He was born in Naples
township, Ontario county. New York, on the 25th of September,
1868, and he is a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of
that county, where his grandfather, Stephen G. Marsh, who was
born at Southbridge, Worcester countj!^, Massachusetts, took up his
residence when a youth, there securing a tract of wild land, which
he eventually reclaimed to cultivation. He returned to Massachu-.
setts after he had selected his land and in his native state his
marriage was solemnized. He then returned with his bride to the
new home in the Empire state, making the trip with horse and wagon,
and he and his wife lived up to the full tension of the pioneer
epoch, enduring the deprivations incidental thereto but finding it
.possible to enjoy peace and prosperity after the farm had been re-
claimed to cultivation. Stephen G. Marsh was born in the year 1810
and he died at an advanced age; his wife, whose maiden name wa.s
Esther Cave, was born in 1808 and was seventy-two years of age at
the time of her demise. Stephen G. ^Marsh was a stanch advocate
of the principles of the Democratic party and was influential in

HISrOEY OF STEUBEN COLTXTY 829

local afi'airs of a piii)lic nature. Both he and his wife were zealous
members of the Universalist church.

Frank A. ilarsh, father of him whose name introduces this arti-
cle, was born on the old homestead farm in Naples township, Ontario
county, and he died on the 29th of December, 1909, at the age of
sixty-tln-ee .years. He never severed his allegiance to the great basic
industry of agriculture, and he eventually became the owner of the
old homestead farm in Naples township, Ontario county, where he
resided until a fe^\- years prior to his death. He was one of the suc-
cessful farmers and highly honored citizens of his native county
and his farm gave every evidence of thrift and prosperity. In con-
nection therewith he gave special attention for many years to the
growing of hops. He was liberal and loyal as a citizen but never
cared to enter the domain of practical politics. He was affiliated
with the Knights of the ilaccabees and liis religious faith was that
of the Jlethodist Episcopal churcli, of which his widow likewise is a
devout adherent. He married Miss Julia A. Morrison, who was born
in Cohocton township, Steuben county, on the 1st of October, 1845,
a daughter of one of the early settlers and prosperous agriculturists
of the county. ^Irs. ilarsh survives her honored husband and now
resides at Cohocton, the subject of this review being the only child.

Salem A. Marsh was reared to the sturdy discipline of the
home farm and was afforded the advantages of the public schools of
his native township. He continued to be associated with his father
in the work and management of the farm until he had attained
his legal majority, and he then entered upon a practical apprentice-
ship to the carpenter's ti-ade, in which he became in due time a
skilled workman. In the spring of 1895 he located in the village of
W'aylaud, where he has since been engaged in contracting and build-
ing, in which connection he has erected many excellent buildings that
stand in evidence of his ability and faithful service in the line of his
chosen vocation. His work has far transcended local limitations,
as he has erected fifteen residence buildings in the city of Eochester,
besides many substantial structures in various parts of Steuben and
adjoining counties. He has marked facility as an architect and has
drawn and perfected the plans and specifications for many of the
buildings which he has erected. He is recognized as one of the
representative contractors and builders of Steuben county and his
fair and honorable business methods have gained to him the con-
fidence and esteem of all with whom he has had dealings. He had
the supervision of the erection of the Gun Lock Chain Factory in
Wayland, in 1909, and in 1910 he secured the contract for the erec-
tion of the Wayland hospital for the Sisters of Nazareth. This
hospital when completed \vill be thoroughly modern in all facilities
and appurtenances and will represent a total expenditure of twelve
thousand dollars for the buildings alone. Mr. Marsh has completed
other important contracts and during the active season of building
work he gives employment to about twenty men.

Mr. Marsh is ever ready to give his influence and co-operation
in the furtherances of measures and enterprises projected for the

830 HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

general welfare of the conmiunity, but he has* naught of desire for
public office and in politics he maintains an independent attitude.
He is affiliated with Warren Patchin Lodge No. 883, Free & Accepted
Masons; with Wayland Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, of which he was vice-grand in 1910 ; and with the local organi-
zation of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is also an active
member of the Wayland Hose Company, a part of the volunteer fire
department of the village.

In the year 1889 Mr. Marsh was united in marriage to Miss
Carrie A. Briggs, who was born in Naples township, Ontario county,
this state, on the 29th of April, 1870, and who is a daughter of
David and Phoebe (Arnold) Briggs, the former of whom still lives
in Naples township and the latter of whom is deceased. Mrs. Marsh
has one brother and two sisters, namely: Myron, who is a resident
of Avoca ; Emma, who is the wife of William Springstead, a farmer
of Naples township, Ontario county; and Minnie, who is the wife
of Byron King, of Wayland, Steuben county. Mrs. Marsh received
excellent educational advantages and was a successful and popular
teacher in the schools of her native county prior to her marriage.
She is prominent in church work and social activities in Wayland
and the attractive home over which she presides is known for its
gracious hospitality. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh have one child. Vera
Julia, who was bom on the 33d of May, 1895, and who is a member
of the class of 1912 in the Wayland High School.

Delos Bliss. — One of the prominent and influential business
men of New York city is Mr. Bliss, who is vice-president and gen-
eral manager of Dodge & Bliss Company and president of the
Meredith Shook Lumber Company, the former corporation having
plants at Jersey City, New Jersey, and Tonawanda, New York, and
the headquarters of the latter company are in Meredith, New Hamp-
shire. Mr. Bliss has his office headquarters in New York City, at 50
Church street, and he is one of the prominent representatives of the
lumber and packing box industry in his native state.

Delos Bliss was born at Truxton, Cortland county, on the 26th of
January, 1841, and he is a son of George and Charlotte (Ames)
Bliss, the former of whom was born at Eehoboth, Ehode Island, and
the latter of whom was born at Leyden, Franklin county, Massa-
chusetts, being a representative of a family that was founded in
New England in the Colonial era. George Bliss devoted the major
portion of his active career to agricultural pursuits and about the
year 1820 he established his home in Cortland county, New York,
where he operated a farm and als.o was identified with the lumbering
business. Later he came with his family to Steuben county, where
he continued to be identified with the same lines of enterprise until
his death, which occurred when he was seventy-two years of age.
His father likewise was a native of Ehode Island, in which state
the family was founded in an early day. Mrs. Charlotte (Ames)
Bliss survived her honored husband and attained to the venerable

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 833

age of ninety-one years, having passed the closing years of her life
in the home of her son, Delos, whose name initiates this review.
Of the nine children three died in infancy. All of the others at-
tained to adult age and of the nnmher three are now living, Egertou
A., who is engaged in the jewelry business in New York city is one
of the intei:ested principals in the E. A. Bliss Company, in which
concern his brother, Delos, is a director; Sarah E. is the widow of
Elikaim Eice and she resides with her brother Delos, who was the
eighth in order of birth of the nine children and the eldest of the
three now living.

Delos Bliss was a child at the time of his parents' removal to
Steuben county, and here he was reared to the age of sixteen years,
in the meanwhile having duly availed himself of the advantages of
the common schools of the locality and period. On the 7th of
February, 1857, he went to New York city, where he secured a
position as errand boy in a jewelry establishment, at No. 13 Cort-
landt street. After having been in the service of this concern about
two years he was given a position as traveling salesman for the same,
then being but nineteen years of age. He represented this house in
the territory along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and proved a very
able and successful salesinan. In 1860 he entered the employ Sf
McGraw & Company, a prominent concern in the lumber business in
Jersey City. In 1861 he engaged in an independent enterprise in
connection with the above concern by establishing a box factory, in
which he manufactured wood boxes for the government, having
initiated this enterprise about the time of the inception of the Civil
war. In 1864 the business was disposed of to William E. Dodge, of
New York city, and the enterprise was thereafter continued for
some time under the title of Dodge & Company. In 1878 Mr. Bliss
fiecame associated in the organization of the present Dodge & Bliss
Company, of which he is vice-president and general manager, and the
other oliices of which are as here noted: D. Stewart Dodge, pres-
ident and William F. Brown, secretary and treasurer. This concern
has finely equipped plants at Jersey City, New Jersey, and Tona-
wanda. New York, and has prestige as being the largest box manu-
facturing concern east of Chicago. Mr. Bliss was the originator of
the effective device for the nailing and printing of boxes by machinery
and he has also perfected a number of other mechanical inventions
which have proved of great value in connection with this line of in-
dustry. The products of the Dodge & Bliss Company are shipped
into divers sections of the world, a large trade being controlled in
Europe and also in South America. The factories of this corporation
utilize an average of twenty-five million feet of lumber each year.
The Meredith Shook & Lumber Company is also a large and sub-
stantial corporation and has mills in Meredith, New Hampshire. In
the factory of the Dodge & Bliss Company at Jersey City employ-
ment is given to two hundred and forty men. Mr. Bliss is recognized
as a business man of great initiative and administrative capacity
and his success has represented the direct results of his own efforts.

834 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

giving him precedence as one of the veritable captains of industry
in the national metropolis. In politics he gives a stanch allegiance
to the Eepublican party and he takes a loyal interest m public afiairs,
though he has never had aught of ambition for political office. In
New York city he holds membership in the Steuben Society and also
the Genesee Society, besides which he is identified with the Engle-
wood Club. He holds membership in the St. Paul Episcopal church,

as did his wife. . „ ^^ -dt i-

In the year 1864 was solemnized the marriage ot Mr. ±5iiss to
Miss Emily F. Field, of Jersey City, and after a long and happy
life companionship Mrs. Bliss was summoned to the beyond, Novem-
ber 19 1910, her demise occurring at her home at Highwood. In an
account of her death published at the time the following lines of
tribute were contained: "This sad event has plunged her relatives
into a grief which is shared by a large number of their friends, who
sincerely mourn the loss of one whose genial personality won such
a warm place in the communitv. As a friend and neighbor Mrs.
Bliss commanded an honored position socially that will cause her to
be greatly missed and deeply regretted. Her illness was of less
than a week's duration, but it defied all that care or skill could render
for her relief. She passed away at the age of sixty-nme, leaving her
husband and six daughters surviving."

The following children were born to ^Ir. and j\Irs. Bliss : Ji,mily
B who is the widow of William IL Kidder, and who subsequently
married Mr. Edward Eoberts, of Manchester, England, and resides
in New York citv ; Miss Susan F., who remains at the parental home •,
Laura B., who is the wife of Thomas B. Cummings, of New York
city; Bertha, who is the wife of Charles Bumsted, of Jersey City;
Ethel, who is the wife of Daniel Fellows Piatt, a successful stock
broker in New York city and Alma, who resides at the parental home.

Robert W. Gaednee.— In New York city Mr. Gardner has
gained distinctive prestige and success as an architect and he is well
entitled to consideration in this publication by reason of the fact that
he is a member of one of the well known and highly honored families
of Steuben county. He was born in the city of Jackson, Mississippi,
on the 17th of November, 1866, and is a son of Major Hezekiah R.
and Eliza (Wheeler) Gardner, the former of whom was born at
Belvidere. Illinois, on the 31st of October, 1839, and the latter of
whom was born in Steuben county, New York, where the family
was founded in an early day. Major Gardner was summoned to the
life eternal on the 25th of April, 1901, and his widow still resides
at Hammondsport, Steuben county. From an article published m
the Wine Press at the time of the death of Major Gardner are taken,
with but slight change of phraseology, the following appreciative

statements: .■,-,, ■ .. • j. j

"Few men were better or more widely known m the wine trade
than Major Gardner. For the last thirty years he has been connected
with the business in one way or another and he was personally

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 835

known to the leading wine makers and wine dealers of the country.
He had traveled extensively and had visited all the prominent centers
of grape-growing and wine-making from New York to California.
Every^^here he went he made friends by reason of his fine qualities as
a man. It was only natural that Major Gardner should have en-
deared himself to a wide circle of friends. He was honorable and
straightforward in all his dealings. His word was as good as his
bond. He was very frank and outspoken and he did not hesitate to
call things by their right names. There was no sham about Major
Gardner. You could always tell where he stood and what he thought.
He despised meanness and mean things, for he never did a mean
action in his life. He appreciated a good story and could tell one
himself, as he had a keen sense of humor.

"Hezekiah Ripley Gardner was born at Belvidere, Illinois, on
the 31st of October, 1839. He was seven years of age at the time of
the death of his father and soon afterward his mother removed to
Hammondsport, Steuben county. New York. He showed his loyalty
to the cause of the Union when its integrity was jeopardized by
armed rebellion and in 1862 he assisted in the organization of
Company I, One Hundredth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which
he went to the front as captain. He served with great credit and
distinction on the staff of General Buell and in the battle of Mission-
ary Eidge, in November, 1863, he received the wound which resulted
in the loss of his right leg. He was discharged for disability in Aug-
ust, 1864, but joined the Veterans' Reserve Corps, and soon after-
ward enlisted in the regular army, being brevetted major. He did
provost marshal and reconstruction duty at Jackson, Mississippi,
and later commanded the Forty-fourth Infantry for several months,
while stationed in the rear of the White House at Washington, D. C.

"Soon after retiring from service Mr. Gardner became identified
with the grape and wine industry at Hammondsport and he always
took great interest in his vineyard and grape culture. For several
years Major Gardner represented the Pleasant Valley Wine Company
and in the '70s, when American champagne was not so well known
or appreciated as it is today, he had plenty of missionary work to do
in the trade. Later on, after retiring from this position, he was
induced to travel in the interests of the Urbana Wine Company, in
which connection he made a splendid record. The ability and ex-
perience of Major Gardner were recognized by his appointment as
special agent of viticulture for the United States census of 1890.
His census work will always stand as a lasting record of patient in-
dustry. It was the first time that the statistics of grape-growing
and wine-making had been gathered in the United States. Having
no data or material to guide him. Major Gardner had to collect
personally and with great pains the figures at first hand. So well
did he do his work that he received the praise of his superior, and
his report is one of the few that were printed over the agent's sig-
nature in the complete volume of the Census Report. Early in 1900
he was appointed to collect the exhibits of wines from the eastern

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states for the Paris Exposition and it was largely due to his ex-
perience and ability that such a fine exhibit of our eastern wines and
champagnes was made at that exposition."

Major Gardner was a stalwart Republican in his political alle-
giance and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, with
the Military Order of Loyal Legion and other fraternal and social
organizations. He was a member of St. James' Episcopal church,
as is also his widow. Of their children two sons and two daughters
are now living.

Robert W. Gardner was a child at the time when the family
home was established at Hammondsport, where he received his pre-
liminary educational discipline in the public schools, after which
he continued his studies in the high school in the city of Buffalo. In
1886, when twenty years of age, he removed to New York city, where
he began the study of architecture in the office of one of the leading
architects of the national metropolis. He gained a thorough knowl-
edge of all the details of this important profession and has been
concerned with much important work in his chosen vocation. In
1904 he engaged in business on his own responsibility and in the
private practice of his profession his success has been of the most
unequivocal order. He makes a specialty of fire-proof country dwell-
ings and is one of the pioneers in this important field, as well as
in the utilizing of reinforced concrete for such architectural pur-
poses. He designed all of the dairy buildings for the Briar Cliff
Farms in Dutchess county, New York, and it is worthy of note
that these farms are the largest producers of certified milk of all in
the world. These farms maintain a herd of fully one thousand
Jersey cows and the buildings are model in design, sanitary ap-
pliances and all facilities. Many buildings designed by and erected
linder the direction of Mr. Gardner have attracted wide attention
and it may be said without fear of legitimate contradiction that
he is one of the leading representatives of his profession in the great
metropolis. He has designed many fine modern residences in Nfew
Jersey and New York city and his experience in his chosen profession
has been wide and varied.

In politics Mr. Gardner is aligned as a stalwart supporter of
the cause of the Republican party and he is a charter member of the
Steuben Society of New York City, besides which he holds member-
ship in the Planters' Society of Boston, Massachusetts. He is a
member of St. Andrew's Episcopal church, senior warden.

In the year 1893 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gardner
to Eleanor (O'Neill) Dean, daughter of William O'Neill, a repre-
sentative citizen of Elmira, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner be-
came the parents of one daughter, Persis, who died at the age of
ten years.

John Harvey Hulburt. — A citizen whose enterprise has done
much to further the commercial and agricultural interests of Way-
land and who is now proprietor of a saloon, and an influential factor
in the community, is John Harvey Hulburt, formerly a farmer. Mr.

HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 837

Hulburt was born September 9, 1851, and is the son of Clark Hul-
burt. The father, a native of Warsaw, New York, was a millwright
by trade and a well known man, whose demise occurred in the year
1887, at the age of seventy-five years. He married Lavina E. Phil-
lips, who survived him until 1891, her age being sixty-three years.
After his retirement the elder Mr. Hulburt made his home with his
son until summoned to the life eternal. There were three children
in the family, the two sisters of the subject being deceased.

After the termination of his school days Mr. Hulburt adopted
farming as an occupation. He continued thus employed for a great
many years, or until 1903, when he embarked in the hay shipping
business and in the sale of timber. In the latter branch "he bought
timber land and cut and shipped the logs. He was successful in this
and in a very few years found no small amount of financial gain.
In 1909 he removed to Wayland, where he now makes his residence,
secure in the enjoyment oif a large circle of friends.

Mr. Hulburt laid the foundation of a happy married life by his
union with Mary Letitia Curry, daughter of James and Nancy Curry,
natives of Ireland, who answered the beckon of opportunity from the
shores of the new world, and crossed the Atlantic to claim their
share of the good things on this side. Shortly after their arrival they
settled in Canisteo, where the father pursued the trade of a shoe-
maker. The name of the wife of the foregoing was Nancy Gregg.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hulburt have been born the following children:
Ray C, aged twenty-six, who married Pearl Mann, and their two
children, Gladys and Edward, giving to the subject the pleasant role
of grandfather; Erwin, aged twenty-three, who resides beneath the
home roof; Mabel, aged seventeen, and Edith, aged fourteen, both of
whom are at school.

The Democratic party claims the allegiance of Mr. Hulburt and
he is very public-spirited, always giving his support to those causes
likely to result in the attainment of the greatest good to the greatest
number. He has held the office of trustee of the school district of
Livingston county for two terms.

J. Nelson Shdmvfay, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born
at Addison, Steuben county, February 13, 1862, a son of John and
Mary (Wettenhall) Shumway. John Shumway was born at Oxford,
Massachusetts, October 4, 1825, and died at Addison, November 17,
1910, aged about eighty-five years. He was brought by his parents
to Oxford, New York, in 1827, when he was about two years old.
The family remained there about ten years, then moved to Addison,
where his father and his elder brothers secured a considerable tract
of timber land. His father was connected with the lumber interests
in the vicinity of Addison from that time until he died. Mary
Wettenhall, who became the wife of John Shumway and the mother
of Dr. Shumway, was born in Massachusetts July 30, 1826, married
Septerriber 7, 1845, and died June 10, 1892, having borne her hus-
band five daughters and three sons, all of whom grew to manhood

838 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

or womanhood. The family of Shumway in America is descended
from emigrants from the border region between Prance and Ger-
many.

These meager facts concerning the children of John and Mary
(Wettenhall) Shumway other than Dr. J. Nelson Shumway, the
eldest son and sixth child in order of nativity, will be of interest
in this connection : One of them is Mrs. Gertrude Page of Hancock,
New York. Another is Mrs. F. H. Wheaton of Addison, New York.
Sarah is Mrs. Kilbourne, of Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. Ella died
aged seventeen years. Cora became Mrs. Hepworth and was killed
in a railroad accident. William and Eush are deceased.

Dr. Shumway passed his boyhood days at Addison and acquired
his primary education in the Addison public schools and at the
Addison academy. He was graduated in 1889 from the New York
State Normal School at Geneseo, Livingston county, and taught
school for seven years thereafter. Then, after two years' study in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Marjdand, he entered
the medical department of the University of Buffalo, New York,
where he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1895. He soon
located in Woodhull, Steuben county, for the practice of his pro-
fession, but remained there only about eight months. In 1896 he
removed to Painted Post, where he has won satisfactory success and
has a large and increasing practice. He is a member of the Steuben
County Medical Association, of the New York State Medical Society
and of the Corning (New York) Medical Association, of which he is
vice-president. In politics he is strictly Eepublican. His interest in
his community is such that he is helpful to all measures which in
his judgment promise to benefit any considerable number of his
fellow citizens. He has served as trustee of the village of Painted
Post and has from time to time served his townsmen in other
capacities.

In 1888 Dr. Shuroway married Miss Nettie Stapley, of Geneseo,
New York, a daughter of Humphrey and Jane Stapley, and they
have a son and a daughter, named Clare and Fannie. The son, aged
about nineteen years, is a student at the Buffalo Medical College,
Buffalo. New York.

Dr. Shumway's honored father, above mentioned, was a pioneer
in this vicinity, lumbering in the early days when the product of
his mill was taken down the river by rafters to be marketed and later
until about 1880, when he retired from active life. His father, the
doctor's grandfather, was born in j\Iassaehusetts January 24, 1790,
and passed most of his mature life at Addison, where he is enshrined
in the memory of old citizens as one of those by whom the wheels
of civilization were put in motion in that vicinity.

John Eael Phillips is incumbent of the responsible position
of chief engineer of the Wayland Light & Power Company and is one
of the well known and popular officials of the village in which he
maintains his residence. He was born in Livonia township, Livings-

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 839

ton county, New York, on the 15th of August, 1883, and is a son of
Henry and Hattie (Shepard) Phillips, the former of whom died
in 1894, at the age of forty-five years, having been a successful
farmer and stock-grower of Steuben county, and the latter of whom
still resides in the village of Wayland. Three children besides the
subject of this review survive the honored father and all of them re-
side in Wayland, namely: William, Edward and Hazel May.

John E. Philips attended the public schools until he had at-
tained to the age of thirteen years and for the ensuing two years he
was employed in a sawmill. He then came to Wayland, where he was
identified with farm work and teaming for some time, after which he
removed to the city of Eochester, where he engaged in the dealing in
and training of horses. Later he returned to Wayland, where he was
employed for a time as a painter and later as a miller and fireman.
Since 1907 he has held his present position as chief engineer of the
power house of the local light and power company and he has shown
much discrimination and care in the handling of the duties devolving
on him in this connection. In politics he gives his allegiance to the
Democratic party and he takes a loyal interest in all that touches the
welfare of the community.

In the year 1903 Mr. Phillips was united in marriage to Miss
Ada Kittle, who was born in Attica in 1878, and who is a daughter
of Holton and Alice (Eobinson) Kittle, the latter of whom died in
1908 and the former of whom is now residing in the home of Mr.
Phillips, the subject of this review. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have two
children, Euby and Euth, twins, who were born on the 20th of June,
1906.

Calvin G. Hungekfoed. — This well known citizen of Corning
was born in Hornby township, Steuben county, August 26, 1855,
eldest son of Elias B. and Jane E. (Gibbs) Hungerford and
brother of Charles A. and Harry H. Hungerford, who are repre-
sented in this work by biographical sketches which throw light on the
family history not particularly suggested here. He was educated
principally in the good public schools of Corning. Some of his
earlier active years he passed as a steam engineer on the Great Lakes,
visiting many western and northwestern ports, then he was likewise
employed on the Hudson river by the West Shore Eailway Com-
pany. He abandoned that work to become a liveryman at Corning,
and as such he had a successful career for twelve years. In 1896,
when the Standard Manufacturing Company was organized, he was
one of its stockholders and was made its manager, in which capacity
he has since directed its affairs. The concern employs an average
of fifteen men the year around. Its catalogue shows that it makes a
fine and comprehensive line in its peculiar field.

Mr. Hungerford married in 1888 Miss Cora L. Sanford, a native
of Corning and a 'daughter of Alfred Sanford. He is popular and
prominent as a citizen, is a member of the Corning board of water
.commissioners and has fulfilled other public obligations, and is an
Odd Fellow well known throughout the county.

840 HISTORY OF STEUBEX CO['XTY

Daniel V. Hungerford, son of Elias B. and Jane E. (Gibbs)
Huagerford and brother of Calvin G. Hungerford, was born at El-
mira, New York, April 8, 1865, and is foreman for the Standard
Manufacturing Company. The family had removed from Hornby
to the city of his birth. From there they came to Corning when he
was about three years old. After leaving school he was for about
eight years in the grocery business at Corning. When the Standard
Manufacturing Company began business he assumed his present
responsible position.

In 1887 he married Miss Nettie .Mercereau, daughter of Mack
and Belle (Armstrong) Mercereau, a native of Union, near Bing;-
hamton, Broome county, New York, who has borne him nine chil-
dren ; Percy M., Cedric E., Marguerite, A. Bell, Nellie M., Adeline,
Leiella, Daniel C, Jr., and Lacy. As a Republican Mr. Hungerford
takes an active interest in local politics. He is a man of influence
in the city, scarcely less well known throughout tlie ^u^rounding
country than is his brother Calvin G. In all the relations of life
the two represent all that is creditable in good citizenship.

Rev. James M. Bustin.— This devoted and efficient minister of
the Roman Catholic church, pastor of St. Mary's parish, Corning,
was bom in Towanda, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1860. His boy-
hood days were spent there and he was graduated at seventeen from
the graded school. He was graduated from Niagara University in
1881, with the A. B. degree, received the A. M. degree in 1883, and
was ordained on May 30, 188."). After a brief temporary pastorate at
Cuba, Allegany county, he was for about two years assistant pastor
at Ellicottville, Cattaraugus county. Then his abilities were recog-
nized by his appointment to organize a new parish at North Tona-
wanda, Niagara county, with his headquarters at Buffalo. In that
undertaking he was successful, building a fine church edifice in
1888 and a parochial residence in 1889. In 1893 both church and
residence were destroyed by fire, and with characteristic energy he
seVabout rebuilding them. In this effort he succeeded in 1894. He
remained at North Tonawanda till July, 1896, when he was called to
St. Mary's parish, Coming, where he has since labored with the
most satisfactory results, increasing the membership of the church
from about three thousand to nearly three thousand six hundred.
He has organized another parish of about one thousand seven hun-
dred members and has a fine parochial school at Coming, in which
about six hundred and thirty-five children are being educated. His
influence in the town is in all things for the best interests of society
and he is popular with citizens of all creeds and of all shades of
political belief. His success has not been attained without great
zeal and much hard work. His administration of the affairs of his
parish marks him not only as a good man but as a business man of
conspicuous constructive ability. '

Lawbekce B. Bennett. — For nearly a quarter of a century has
Mr. Bennett been identified with railroad service and he is now
incumbent of the position of telegraph operator at the station of

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 841

the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Eailroad, in the village of
Wayland. He is well known in Steuben county and his popularity is
of unqualified order.

Lawrence Burdon Bennett claims the Wolverine state as the
place of his nativity, though he is 'a scion of families that were
early founded in the state of New York. He was born in Van
Buren county, ilichigan, on the 10th of April, 1870, and is a son
of Guy B. and Olive Bennett. Mr. Bennett was eight months old
at the time of his mother's death and he was shortly afterward
brought by his father to Steuben county, where he was reared to
maturity and where his educational advantages were those afforded
in the public schools of Wayland. Here he entered the high school
when ten years of age and he was graduated therein as a member
of the class of 1892. When sixteen years of age Mr. Bennett en-
tered upon an apprenticeship to the trade of telegrapher in the
Wayland office of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Eailroad
and after perfecting himself as an operator he continued in the
employ of this cornpany as such for two years, when he was also
made station agent. He held this position at various points on
the line of this- road and finally returned to Wayland, where he be-
came station agent and telegraph operator for the same railway
system, with which he has been identified for twenty-four years.
He is now serving as operator for the company and the business of
the office is adequate to demand his full time and attention, so that
he is not now station agent. In politics Mr. Bennett is a zealous
and effective advocate of the principles of the Democratic party
and he has been active in its local councils. He is affiliated with
the Wayland Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and
both he" and his wife hold membership in the Evangelical church.

On the 9th of October, 1902, Mr. Bennett was united m mar-
riage to Miss Caroline Waitie Batholomew, who was born and reared
in Wavland and who is a daughter of Albert A. Bartholomew, who
is here engaged in the buying and shipping of produce upon a large
scale. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett have one child, Margaret Alta, who
was born on the 30th of August, 1908.

Philip E. Kinsella, who at the end of his present term will
have served his fellow-citizens with great ability and credit for more
than twelve vears as supen'isor of Erwin township, was born at Gang
Mills, in that municipal division of Steuben county, April 24 1868
a son of Lawrence and Margaret Kinsella. His father, a native of
Ireland, came with his parents, Eichard and Elizabeth Kinsella, to
the United States and located at Corning when that now flourish-
ing citv was yet a small village. He found employment with the
firm of Fox & Weston, the then great lumber concern which was so
influential in the days of the earlier history of this vicinity. For
twenty-six vears he was engineer at their lumber manufacturing
establishment at Gang Mills, and from time to time was called to
the performance of other important duties m their interest. He

843 HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY

married, in Erwin township, Miss Margaret Hogue, a native of
Canada, who passed away in 1900, he surviving. They were the
parents of four children, all of whom lived to manhood and woman-
hood. John A. is employed as an engineer by the New York Cen-
tral Eailroad Company. Elizabeth is the wife of John Gallagher
of Corning. Thomas L. is a member of his father's household.

Philip E. Kinsella, second child and second son in the family
just mentioned, passed his boyhood in his native place, attending
public school in his home district and at Painted Post. His first
work away from home was as fireman under his father in the Fox
& Weston mill. Thus he was employed three years, then he turned
his attention to farming land, which he rented of W. S. Hodgman
& Company. On this farm, located not far from Painted Post, he
has lived since that time. This life-long resident of Erwin town-
ship is widely known as one of old Steuben's most loyal sons. A
stanch Eepubliean, he has always been devoted to the furtherance
of the policies of that party so great in the history of our country.
In its local work he has long been active and influential. By suc-
cessive reelection, without opposition in his own party, he has filled
the responsible office of supervisor of Erwin township for more than
eleven years. His public spirit is such that he is in the forefront
of every movement which in his opinion promises good to any con-
siderable number of his fellow-citizens. His prominence in township
and county affairs has made him well known in Steuben and ad-
jacent counties. He and his family are identified with the Eoman
Catholic church.

On June 18, 1893, Mr. Kinsella married Miss Mary E. Cowley,
a daughter of Levi and Margaret Cowley, of Corning. They have
two children — Margaret and Philip.

Hiram P. Badger. — This well-known gentleman, now long re-
tired from active life, is a son of a pioneer in his vicinity in point
of settlement and a pioneer merchant of Steuben county. He was
born in Painted Post, in the house in which he now lives, August 18,
1845, and during all the sixty-five years since has been a resident
of that town. His parents were Harvey P. and Louisa (Potter)
Badger. Harvey P. Badger, a native of Colesville, Broome county.
New York, came to Painted Post in 1841 and was married that same
year. It was in that year also that he opened a general store at
Painted Post, which he conducted successfully until 1867, when he
retired from business. But he was too ambitious to abandon all
business projects, and in 1869, with his son Herbert as a partner,
he again engaged in merchandising, establishing another store, which
was in profitable operation till in 1873, when it was burned. Mr.
Badger, then advanced in life, retired permanently. He lived to be
about seventy-eight years old. His wife, who, as has been stated,
was Miss Louisa Potter, a daughter of ex-sheriff Hiram Potter, de-
ceased, of Steuben county, was born in the- town of Pompey, Onon-
daga county, New York, and died when she was about sixty-three

HENRY G. TUTHILL

HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 845

years old. She bore her husband a family of three sons and three
daughters, five of whom lived to manhood and womanhood. Hiram
P. is the immediate subject of this sketch. Herbert L. lives in Erwin
township on a farm and is mail carrier on Eoute 2 from Painted
Post postofBce. Samuel W. is a practicing physician at Athens,
Pennsylvania. Anna married W. J. Gilbert and is living in Brook-
lyn, New York. Sarah married W. H. Calkins and died in January,
1869. Louise died at the age of two years and ten months.

Of this family, Hiram P. Badger was the third child and the
second son in order of birth. His entire life thus far has been
passed at Painted Post. There he was educated in the best schools
in the town. At eighteen he began to learn the machinist's trade
under W. H. Calkins, and in that business his energies were expended
for the long period of a quarter of a century, and he has been nearly
as long in retirement. He was assistant postmaster at Painted Post
for six years and was the town assessor for thirteen years, also vil-
lage trustee for one term. In politics he is Eepublican in all that
the word has implied, and he has always devoted himself to the
general good of the town. His prominence and influence as a citi-
zen have been long established on so firm a foundation that his ad-
vice is invariably sought in any work for the general benefit and
improvement.

Colonel Henry G. Tuthill. — Distinguished not only for his
gallant service in the Civil war but as an enterprising and prosper-
ous business man of Corning, Colonel Henry G. Tuthill is widely
known as one of the leading architects of this part of Steuben
county and also as a dealer in real estate and as an insurance man.
He was born, September 35, 1833, in East Otto, Cattaraugus county,
New York, of thrifty New England ancestry, being the lineal de-
scendant of one of three brothers named Tuthill who emigrated from
England in Colonial days, settling in the Green Mountain state.

His father, Samuel Tuthill, was born at Bellows Falls, Ver-
mont, where his father, a life-long resident of Vermont, was engaged
in agricultural pursuits. In 1882 he made his way to New York
state, a large part of the way following a path marked by blazed
trees, and settled as a pioneer in Cattaraugus county. Taking up
a tract of wild land, he cleared a farm from the dense wilderness,
in the meantime bravely bearing all the trials and privations incident
to pioneer life. A man of much intelligence and energy, he became
active in public affairs, serving many years as justice of the peace.
He lived on the homestead place until his death, at the ripe old
age of seventy-six years. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah
Guernsey, was born in Vermont of English ancestry. She survived
him, passing away at the age of eighty-six years. Of their family
of four daughters and three sons, all but one child grew to years
of maturity. Henry G., the fifth child and eldest son, and his
brother, Harvey Tuthill, living on the parental homestead in East
Otto,- are the only members of the family now living.

846 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

With the exception of two years spent as a youth in Ohio,
Henry G. Tuthill remained beneath the parental roof-tree until nine-
teen years old. Going then to Livingston county, New York, he
served an apprenticeship at the cabinet maker's trade m Nunda
with his uncle, Daniel M. Tuthill, who at the end of two years gave
him two hundred dollars for his services. He paid his father one
hundred dollars for his time, and at the end of his two years had
a bank account of fifty dollars. He subsequently worked with his
uncle as iournevman for a year, and then, in 1856, came to dom-
ing and the following year was foreman in the Townley & Lower
factory. He then formed a partnership with William F. Townley,
hh brother-in-law, and continued in business with him about two
years, when he moved with his family to Nunda, Livingston county.
Few veterans of the war between the states can look back upon
a war record as thrilling and gallant as Colonel Tuthill. On Sep-
tember 30 1861, at Nunda, he enlisted in Company A, One Hunared
and Fourth New York Volunteer Infantry, of which he was at one*-
commissioned captain. This regiment, known as the Wadsvonn
Guards, he had been instrumental, in raising, and his company. A,
was the second to leave Nunda. The regiment was organized at Al-
bany March 4, 1863, with John Rohrbach, colonel; R. Wells Kenyim,
lieutenant colonel; L^wis C. Skinner, major. Serving bravely on
the field of battle, he was promoted from captain to lieutenant
colonel in October, 1862. At the battle of Bull Run Virginia
August 30, 1863, he received a piece of shell m his right leg, and
at Antietam, Maryland, September 17, 1863, he was severely wound,
ed two fingers on his right hand being shot off, after which dis-
ablement he returned to Corning on leave of absence. His wounds
healing, Colonel Tuthill reported to the medical director at Wash-
ington! D. C, and was sent to Elmira, New York where he had
command of the post from December 15, 1863, to March 4, 1863,
when he was ordered to join his regiment, which had been assigned
to the First Array Corps, commanded by General John A. Keynoias,
of Rochester, New York, and subsequently participated xn many
important and fiercely contested engagements. He was wounded at
ChancellorsviUe, Virginia, May 3, 1863, receiving a gunshot m his
left leg, and again at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1863, a
ball, which he still carries, entered his right grom. For four days
thereafter he lav on the battlefield in the hands of the enemy, with-
out care of any" kind. When able to be removed he was sent to the
officers hospital at Annapolis, Maryland, where he was examined by
a board of army surgeons of which General Graham was president
and was discharged from the service November J, 1863 on account
of disability from a wound received in action at Gettysburg, l-enn-

svlvania, July 1, 1863. . . , , tj „=,;;i„„4- t in

" On January 33, 1864, he was commissioned by President Lin-
coln as captain in the Veteran Reserve Corps, U. S A-, and a^igBed
to duty at Newark, New Jersey, having charge of all the troops at
this important station. From there he was ordered to Washington.

HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY 84T

D. C, in January, 1865, where he remained on detached duty until
March 4, 1865, he was ordered to Baltimore, Maryland, with two
companies of reserves. He furnished the guard of honor at the
catafalque when the martyred president was laid in state at the
government building. He remained on duty at Baltimore, fur-
nishing guards for the hospitals and forts until October, 1866, when
he was ordered to Washington, D. C, and mustered out by general
orders November 7, 1866. He was brevetted colonel of ^ew York
Volunteers on December 11, 1808, for meritorious services during
the war.

His services included the ensuing campaigns and engagements :
Campaign against Jackson in Shenandoah Valley, May-August,
1862 ; battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9 ; northern Virginia cam-
paign, August 16 to September 2 ; Rappahannock Station, August
20-23; Rappahannock River, August 21-22; White Sulphur Springs,
August 5-27; Thoroughfare Gap, August 28; battle of Bull Run,
August 30 ; Little River Turnpike, September 1 ; Maryland cam-
paign, September 3-20 ; battle of South Mountain, September 14 ;
battle of Antietam, .September 1 7 ; battle of Fredericksburg, De-
cember 11-15; Burnside's second campaign; Mud march, January
20-33, 1863 ; Chancellorsville campaign, April 27-May 6 ; operations
at Pollock's Mill Crossing, April 29-May 1 ; battle of Chancellors-
ville, Jlay 3-4 ; battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. His last field
duty was performed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Returning to Corning, Colonel Tuthill engaged in business as
an architect, and in this line has built up a fine business and won
an extensive reputation as a skillful and practical architect. He
erected a summer house, or cottage, on Keuka Lake in 1882, and
has also built many of the finest public buildings in Corning and
some of the most desirable residences. He is also extensively en-
gaged in the real estate and insurance business and has large real
estate interests in Coming.

Colonel Tuthill has long been prominent in the Grand Army
of the Republic, in 1868 having organized Logie Post, then No. 80,
now Hayt Post No. 276, of which he was the commander. The colonel
is one of the oldest members of the Ancient Order of Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, having joined Painted Post Lodge No. 117, F. &
A. M., in 1857. At this writing, in 1910, there is but one older
member of this lodge, in which he served as an officer prior to the
Civil war. Colonel Tuthill is one of the directors of the Corning
Co-operative Savings and Loan Association. He has been active in
public affairs, from 1869 until 1872 serving as superintendent of
the poor for Steuben county, and for three years being police com-
missioner of Coming.

On May 20, 1857, Colonel Tuthill married Catherine A. Town-
ley, and of the children bom of their union five sons are living,
namely: James S., a graduate of Cornell University, has been
superintendent of the Middletown, New York, schools for the past
nineteen vears ; L. H., also a graduate of Cornell University, is prin-

848 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

cipal of Public School No. 16, Brooklyn, New York; Eugene, who
was graduated from Cornell University, is an architect at Corning,
New York; Charles G. is proprietor of a cut glass company at Mid-
dletown. New York ; and Frank W. is an engineer on the New York
Central Eailroad. Colonel Tuthill celebrated his golden wedding
anniversary on May 30, 1907, at which gathering all of his children
were present.

Edwin C. Smith.— This is the era of the comparatively young
man. Time was when the prominence already gained by the pro-
gressive son of Yates county whose name is above would have been
attainable only to a man on the shady side of the half-century mark.
Mr. Smith, who is district attorney of Steuben county, was born at
Dundee, Yates county, New York, December 15, 1870. His father,
Charles A. Smith, formerly a farmer and operator of vineyards, is
living in retirement at Hammondsport. He was born in Steuben
county, a son of Ameron Smith, an early settler from central New
York and a member of one of the old Mohawk Dutch families so
influential in that region. His wife, mother of Edwin C. Smith,
was born at Dundee, Yates county, New York, a daughter of Addi-
son B. Lewis, of Scotch descent. Two sons— Edwin C. and Frank A.
—were bom to Charles A. and Emma (Lewis) Smith. The father,
who had gone from Steuben county to Yates county, returned to
his native county when his eldest son, Edwin, was about eight
months old, locating in the town of Urbana, where the future prose-
cuting attorney passed the years of his boyhood. Mr. Smith was
duly graduated from the schools of Hammondsport and of Bath
and then was for five years a school teacher in Steuben county.
TJiree years he held the" office of school commissioner for the first
commissioners' district of the county, performing its duties with
characteristic thoroughness and integrity. He was graduated from
the law department of Union College in 1897 ; was admitted to the
bar and entered at once upon the practice of his profession at Addi^
son, where he has been in continuous practice thirteen years. In
November, 1905, he was elected supervisor of the town of Addison.
In May, 1906, he was appointed district attorney and resigned the
supervisorship in order the better to handle the responsibilities of
the more exacting office. In his political convictions he is stanchly
Eepublican. His father is and his grandfather was in his time of
the same political faith, and the three have gone to the polls to-
o-ether and in turn voted the same ticket, showing three genera-
tions of Eepublicans in line. In that time Edwin C. was the nomi-
nee of his party for the office of commissioner of schools and had
the honor and pleasure of seeing his sire and grandsire cast their

ballots for him. , , _ „ T^m j nr j

Mr Smith is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, an Elk and a Modern
Woodman In Masonry he has attained to the thirty-second degree
and is a past district deputy of the thirty-fourth district. He is
past grand of his lodge of Odd Fellows. He married, m 1900,

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 849

jMiss Bertha Perrow, of Addison. He owns a fine farm near that
village. In all his active career he has demonstrated that quality
of public spirit which makes for good and useful citizenship. To
the duties of his office he brought adequate professional learninsr,
ample business experience and an honest determination to succeed
along the straight line of right and justice, respecting the court,
respecting the public and, what is better, respecting himself; and
his administration of the office has won him the good opinion of
his fellow-citizens of all shades of all political beliefs.

Charles F. Pakk, vice-president of the Park, Winton and True
Company, manufacturers of sash, doors and blinds, Addison, and
well and favorably thought of in southern New York, was born at
Addison, October 15, 1871, the younger son of James H. and Theresa
Adelaide (Reynolds) Park, his brother being William R. Park, a
citizen of Addison and also an official of the manufacturing con-
cern mentioned. Their father, who began manufacturing in Addi-
son in 1855, died there in 1901. The mother is living in that vil-
lage.

The immediate subject of this notice was reared and educated
in Addison and when he was about twenty-one yedrs old was taken
into his father's business, with the understanding that he would very
likely become prominent in it. But he made the right beginning,
working in the yards and at whatever there was to be done, side
by side with ordinary employes of the factory. After his father's
death he became buying agent, with sole responsibility for the equip-
ment and general efficiency of the plant. The Park, Winton &
True Company was organized in 1910, with George I. True as presi-
dent, Charles F. Park as vice-president and purchasing agent and
William R. Park as secretary, and the enterprise ranks as Addison's
oldest manufacturing enterprise and as one of the oldest concerns of
its class in the country. Mr. Park is a stockholder in the Yadkin
Lumber Company, of Yadkin, North Carolina, which owns fifty-
five thousand acres of timber lands in the western part of that'
state; also in the Embreeville Lumber Company, of Embreeville,
Tennessee, which holds title to thirty thousand acres of timber in
eastern Tennessee. .

A life-long resident of Addison, Mr. Park is one of its most
public spirited citizens. He has been a member of the local fire
department many years and is its assistant chief, is a member of
the village fire board and as a member of the board of education is
influential in the direction of the affairs of the Addison Union
school He is a Mason and an Elk and a vestry-man in the Episco-
pal church of Addison. Mrs. Park was Miss Caroline Stratton,
daughter of George W. Stratton, of Addison, formerly prominent m
the tanning business. She has borne her husband two sons— James
Stratton and Francis A. Park.

Burt C. Patchin.— No name has been more prominently and
worthilv identified with the civic and industrial development and
upbuilding of Steuben countv than that of Patchm, which has

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numerous representatives within the borders of the county at the
present time. The name has stood exponent of the highest integrity
and honor, of utmost civic loyalty and progressiveness and of dis-
tinctive constructive power, as the members of the family, as one
generation, has followed another on the stage of life's activities, have
each contributed to the advancement of those interests which make
for social and material prosperity. He whose name initiates this
review is one of the representative citizens of his native countv,
and he has directed his course along lines of productive energy, so
that he has gained status as one of the leading agriculturists and
stock-growers of this favored section of the state, with special repu-
tation in the breeding of fine standard-bred horses. His splendid
homestead place, known as the Patchin farm,' is one of the finest
rural demesnes in south-central Xew York and is eligibly located
in Wayland township about three miles distant from the village of
the same name. In all respects he is well upholding the prestige
of the honored name which he bears and which has been inseparably
linked with the history of Steuben county for nearly a century.

Burt Cameron Patchin was born on the farmstead which now
constitutes his home, and the date of his nativity was February 13,
1869. He is a son of Cameron and Harriet M. (Glines) Patchin.
Concerning the ancestral history, apropos its association with the
annals of Steuben county, excellent record was made in a history
of Wayland prepared by Charles M. Jervis and published in 1901,
and from this record the following statements are taken, with but
slight paraphrase:

"The Patchin and Hess families came to Patchinsville in 1814
and the years immediately following. The advent of these two
families gave to that section of the town the vast preponderance of
vigor and enterprise, and for many succeeding years it was, and
seemed destined to remain, the business center. Walter Patchin
was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, July 24:, 1764. When he was a
child his father removed to Balston, Saratoga county. New York,
and here, while a mere boy, he Joined the Continental army and
took part in the defense of the town against the British and Indians.
The town was burned, and young Patchin was wounded by an In-
dian, but saved his life by swimming the river. He was afterward
pensioned by the government for the injury he received. Later he
settled in Mareellus, Onondaga county, and in 1814 he removed to
Steuben county, where he took up a large tract of land, on which
he built a log house. This pioneer domicile stood nearly on the site
of the house now occupied by Hon. Gordon "M. Patchin. Walter
Patchin was twice married, his first wife being the mother of two
children — Loraine and Dr. Warren Patchin. Of the second mar-
riage eleven children were born. Walter Patchin died in 1854, at
the age of ninety years, and is buried in the East Wayland ceme-
tery.

"When AValter Patchin moved to town he transported his goods
with an ox team, and in coming down the East Patchin hill, over

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which the old road led, one of the oxen fell and broke its neck — a
most serious loss for a pioneer farmer. On inquiry of Benjamin
Perkins he learned of a settler near Dansville from whom an ox
could be obtained, but Mr. Patchin was not prepared to pay for the
animal just then and, being a stranger, was in a predicament, from
which Mr. Perkins relieved him by picking up a chip on which he
scratched his initials, 'B. P.,' and gave it to Mr. Patchin to hand to
the settler, which he did, whereupon he returned home with the ox.
This is the first recorded bank check in the town.

"Dr. Warren Patchin, who was born at Balston, in 1784, had
graduated from Fairfield Seminary and had seen service in the war
of 18121-14. He followed his father from Marcellus to the 'far west,'
as this country was then known, and in 1816 he settled on what is
now the Marlette farm. He was the most noted medical practi-
tioner of his period in this locality, his clientele extending over a
radius of fifty miles of territory, and at a time when bridle paths
were the principal highways it was not an uncommon occurrence
for him to be compelled, if overtaken by night, to fasten his horse ■
to a tree and make himself as comfortable as possible until daylight
permitted him to continue his journey. He was an active member
of the Steuben Medical Society from the time of its organization,
in 1818, and was its first president. He again held the presidency
of the organization in 1824 and in 1843-4. Aside from his profes-
sional work he found time and energy to devote to business matters,
and in 1820 he built the Patehinville saw mill, which burned the
following year, and in 1882 he erected the grist mill. The long-
time famous Patchin's Mills hotel was built by him in 1824. It
was his intention to make it of brick, which he endeavored to manu-
facture, but the clay was deficient and the bricks proved worthless,
so the wooden structure was erected. It stood where now is the
house of John P. Morsch and was a typical country tavern. Dr.
Patchin became the father of six children: Warren, 1804-1879;
Jabez, 1806-182.5; Harriet (Mrs. Warring), 1808-186—; Ira, 1812-
1898; Cameron, 1820-1896; Minerva (Mrs. John Young), 1826-
1900. Dr. Warren Patchin died in 1872."

Dr. Cameron Patchin, the fifth in order of birth of the six
children of Dr. Warren Patchin, was born on the homestead farm
in Steuben county on the 29th of February, 1820, and he died on
the 13th of August, 1896. He was a man of fine intellectual and
professional talents, and no citizen held more secure place in popu-
lar confidence and esteem. Concerning him the following pertinent
statements have been made : "Dr. Cameron Patchin was a man most
highly esteemed by our older citizens, and but little known to the
younger generation. A natural dignity of bearing lent a sternness
of appearance that caused him to be frequently misunderstood by
those who did not know the real man. In .youth his desire to study
medicine was not encouraged by his father, but his steadfast de-
termination in the matter at last gained paternal sanction. He
carried the same fixed determination to succeed into the work of

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his profession, for which he admirably prepared himself, and the
result was that he attained to at least equal eminence with his father
as a practitioner and in consultation, as well as in making substan-
tial additions to his inheritance."

On the 27th of January, 1860, Dr. Cameron Patchin was united
in marriage to Harriet M. Glines, who was born in Bradford county,
Pennsylvania, on the 4th of October, 1832, and whose death oc-
curred on the 6th of January, 1895. She was a daughter of Win-
throp T. and Harriet (Beeman) Glines, the former of whom was
born December 5, 1803, and the latter May 26, 1809, their marriage
having been solemnized on the 24th of January, 1828. Dr. Cameron
Patchin and Harriet M. (Glines) Patchin are survived by two sons,
of whom the younger is Burt C, who retains the old homestead and
is proprietor of the Patchin farm. The elder son. Prank G., was
for nine years editor of the Rochester Post-Express, in the city of
Eochester, and is a man of fine literary ability. He is the author
of various books and at the present time devotes his attention almost
entirely to literary work of various kinds. He is a resident of
Eochester. The mother was affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal
church.

Burt Cameron Patchin, whose name initiates this review, gained
his early education in the public schools of Wayland township and
supplemented this by a course of one year in Dansville Seminary
and by one year's attendance in the state normal school at Geneseo.
He then entered Columbia Institute, in New York city, but before
the completion of his course the illness of his father caused him to
return home and assume the practical management of the estate.
He has since continued to reside on the magnificent old homestead
known as "Patchin Parm," and the same now comprises two hun-
dred and fifty acres, upon which the improvements are of the best
order. He erected, in 1900, the present beautiful mansion, which
is conceded to be one of the best in this section of the state. "Pat-
chin Farm" has gained a national reputation through the breeding
of high-grade trotting and pacing horses.

Mr. Patchin is one of the most extensive farmers and stock-
growers of this section of the old Empire commonwealth, and under
his able supervision the reputation of the "Patchin" breeding stab-
bles has been greatly amplified and emphasized. On the farm is a
one-eighth mile track, all under cover, also a one-half mile open,
and this is utilized for the training of the fine standard-bred horses
raised on the place, while a specialty is made of raising only the best
tyije. Mr. Patchin is enthusiastic in his work, and his success has
been of the most unequivocal type. "Patchin Farm" has its own
electric plant, which is utilized for the lighting of the residence and
other buildings and also for various mechanical purposes incidental
to the various departments of enterprise conducted on this beautiful
place. The residence and other buildings are supplied with water
from a private plant, and the improvements throughout are of the
best modern order. Mr. Patchin is the owner of an independent

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telephone line from Wayland to Loon Lake, and he gave his capi-
talistic support to the organization and incorporation of the Inter-
Ocean Telephone Company, besides which he is a stockholder in
various other corporations of important order and concerned with a
number of local enterprises that have had definite bearing on the
progress and upbuilding of his native county. From 1897 to 1901
he was associated with Martin W. Snyder in the retail drug busi-
ness in the village of Wayland, where he is the owner of valuable
realty, including the Patchin block, one of the best business build-
ings in the village.

Though he finds insistent demands upon his time and attention
in the management of his fine estate and its varied interests, Mr.
Patchin is known as a loyal and public-spirited citizen — one who is
every ready to lend his influence and co-operation in the promotion
of enterprises and measures tending to advance the general welfare
of the community. Though he has manifested naught of ambition
for official preferment and the turmoil of practical polities, he gives
an unwavering allegiance and support to the cause for which the
Eepublican party stands sponsor, and he is an appreciative member
of the time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which he has completed
the circle of the Scottish rite body and attained to the Thirty-second
degree. He is also affiliated with the Coming Valley Consistory,
and as a master Mason he is a member of Warren Patchin Lodge,
No. 883, Free & Accepted Masons, at Wayland. He is also identified
with Damascus Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, in the city of Eochester.

On the 27th of August, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Patchin to Miss Sally Gregory Nuttall, who was born in the city
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 3rd of September, 1876, and
who is a member of one of the distinguished families of that city.
Her father, Eobert Peel Nuttall, was bom in England, and was a
boy at the time of his parents' immigration to America, the family
home being established in Philadelphia. He eventually became a
manufacturer of surgical instruments. He continued to reside in
Philadelphia until his death, and his wife, whose maiden name was
Hannah Hardy, is now also dead. Mrs. Nuttall likewise was bora
in England and she was seven years of age at the time when her
parents came to the United States and established their home in
Chester, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Patchin has two sisters and two broth-
ers—John and Eobert, who reside in Philadelphia ; Mary is the wife
of Benjamin F. Jones, of Buifalo, New York; and Miss Hannah
resides in Philadelphia. Mrs. Patchin was graduated in the high
school of Philadelphia and later continued her studies in a normal
school of her native state. For three years prior to her marriage
she was a successful teacher in the public schools of Philadelphia.
She is a woman of most gracious personality and social charm and
presides most effectively over the beautiful home, which is a center
of generous hospitality. She is a communicant of the Protestant
Episcopal church, in which she holds membership. Mr. and Mrs.
Patchin have no children.
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854 HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUXTY

Edwakd Jacobs. — Numbered among the well known and high-
ly esteemed citizens of the thriving little village of Wajdand, where
he conducts a successful teaming and general transfer business, Ed-
ward Jacobs IS well entitled to representation in this work. He is
a son of the late Elias Jacobs, and as definite record concerning the
family history appears on other pages of this work, in the sketch of
the career of an elder brother, John E. Jacobs, it is not necessary to
repeat the data in the article at hand.

Edward Jacobs was born in Springwater, Livingston county, on
the 6th of April, 1863, and his early experiences were those of the
home farm, upon which he was reared to maturity, in the meanwhile
duly availing himself of the advantages afforded in the public schools
of the locality. He continued to be associated in the work and
management of the home farm until he had attained the age of
thirty years. He then went to Levona, Livingston county, where
he lived twelve years, and in the later years he had practical super-
vision of the home place. In 1906 he removed to Wayland, Steu-
ben county, where he has since been successfully engaged in team-
ing. Mr. Jacobs is an energetic and enterprising business man,
and through his well directed industry has achieved success worthy
of the name. He and his wife are held in high regard in the com-
munity, and he takes a lively interest in all that touches its welfare.
He is a member of the German Lutheran church, and Mrs. Jacobs
holds membership in the United Evangelical church, in which she
is actively identified with the Ladies' Aid Society and the Christian
Endeavor Society. Mr. Jacobs has never had any desire to identify
himself with practical politics and in this connection is non-parti-
san. He is affiliated with the Wayland lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.

In the year 1886 Mr. Jacobs was united in marriage to Miss
Ella Hamsher, who was born in Sparta township, Livingston county,
on the 13th of July, 1864, and who is a daughter of Albert and
Mary (Chart) Hamsher. Mr. Hamsher was numbered among the
prosperous farmers of Livingston county at the time of his death,
which occurred in July, 1890, when he was fifty-two years of age.
His widow, who is now seventy-two years of age, resides at Spring-
water, Livingston county. Of her two surviving children Mrs. Jacobs
is ^he elder, and Frank is a prosperous farmer of Steuben county.

Thomas E. Haedeu', proprietor of the American House, Addi-
son, was born at Sandy Hill, Washington county, New York, Au-
gust 13, 1842, a son of Abner and Martha (Eldredge) Harden. His
father had come to Sandy Hill from the Mohawk Valley. He was
a shoemaker and worked there at his trade till 1848, when he went
to Sabinsville, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, passing through Steu-
ben county on the way. He died at Sabinsville when he was about
sixty years old. Mr. Harden's mother was a daughter of Thomas
Eldredge, of English descent, and a native of Tompkins county,
New York. She died at Sandy Hill, New York, when more than

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eighty-six years old. The extraction of the Hardens, of whom the
subject of this notice is a family member, is traced to Germany.
He was the third born of his parents' two sons and two daughters,
of whom, besides himself, his sister Frances J. is the only one liv-
ing. She is the wife of Ealph P. Eichards, of Sandy Hill, New
York.

Mr. Harden was six years old when his father went by way of
Steuben county,, New York, to Sabinsville, Tioga county, Penn-
sylvania. When he was twelve he went back to Sandy Hill to live.
In 1863, Avhen he was about twenty-one, he returned to Sabinsville,
stopping on the way at Addison, where he was for a short time
clerk in the village hotel, then owned by one of his uncles. He
returned to Addison and from there went to Syracuse, New York,
where he was clerk in the Globe Hotel about a year. After that he
was employed ten years as a commercial traveler by A. H. Gillett,
of that city. In 1877 we find him back in Addison, proprietor of the
American House, which he has conducted continuously to the present
time. For a time he was interested in the manufacture of bicycles,
was also interested in the LaCost dry goods store and has had to do
with other local business concerns, but first and foremost he has
been the village "landlord" and one of the most popular ones in his
part of the state.

In 1866 he married Miss Minnie M. Bennett, a daughter of
Urson G. Bennett, and A. G. Harden, their son, is president and
general manager of the Columbus Exhibition. Mr. Harden is a high
Mason, a member of the Blue Lodge No. 118, of the Chapter No.
145, of St. Omar's Commandery No. 19, at Elmira, of the Shrine
at Binghamton and of the Consistory at Corning. Everywhere
among Masons he is greeted as of the thirty-second degree. He is
a member also of lodge No. 364 of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. In 1882 he was elected master of Union Lodge No.
118, F. & A. M., of Addison, and he was a member of the Council
at that place while it was in existence. He is a man of public
spirit, who takes an active and helpful interest in all that promises
to promote the best interests of Addison and its tributary territory
and is consulted by his fellow-citizens in all matters of general im-
portance.

LoKiN B. Aldrich. — This well known citizen of Steuben county
has been connected with one business plant at Addison about fifty-
one years and has for the same length of time been a contractor of
sash, doors and blinds. He was born at Plymouth, Chenango coun-
ty. New York, March 39, 1834, a son of Ethan Aldrich, a native
of Ehode Island, who came to Addison, bringing his family, about
1844. His wife (Esther Brewer), a native of Chenango eountv,
bore him eight children, of whom Lorin was the fourth in order of
nativity. :Mr. xildrich was a farmer during his active years, but
retired to Elmira, where he and his wife both passed away.

Mr. Aldrich was about ten years old when his parents took up
their residence at Addison. He attended common schools as a boy,

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and in 1860, when he was about twenty-six years of age, became
connected with the business of McKay and Bliss, whose plant has
been absorbed in that of the Park, Winton and True Company.
Two years later he began contracting. For half a century he has
been in the same position with successive firms on the same ground,
performing the same duties, each year confronting a task larger and
of more responsibility than that which he had confronted the year
before, until now he is with the Park, Winton and True Company,
one of the largest of its kind in the country. He has long been
active in the affairs of his village, township and county. He was a
member of the corporation board of Addison fourteen years, six
years of the time as its president, and he was twenty years on the
school board, and has for twenty years been a trustee of the public
library. In his politics he is Eepublican. He is a thirty-second de-
gree Mason, and is high in Odd Fellowship, with which he has
been affiliated thirty-five years. He has been married twice, first
to Huldah Houghtelling, who bore him two children, named Car-
mitia and Ermine. The first wife is deceased, and he has married
Ella Koberts, of Elmira, by whom he has a son named Harold.

Alonzo a. Jacobs. — He whose name initiates this article is in-
cumbent of the position of engineer and general mechanician for
the Gunlocke Furniture & Chair Company, one of the prominent
industrial concerns of the thriving little city of Wayland. He has
been a resident of this section of the old Empire state from the
time of his nativity and has so ordered his course as to retain the
unqualified confidence and regard of all who know him. Concerning
the family history more specific data may be found in the sketch of
the career of his brother, John A. Jacobs, on other pages of this
work.

Alonzo Alber^ Jacobs ^^■as born in Springwater township, Liv-
ingston county. New York, on the 10th of June, 1878, and is a son
of Blias Jacobs, who was a prosperous farmer and highly honored
citizen of this section of the state. Mr. Jacobs passed his boyhood
and youth on the home farm and gained his early educational disci-
pline in the public schools. He continued to be concerned with the
work of the home farm until he had attained to his legal majority
and shortly afterward he purchased an interest in a threshing out-
fit, with the operation of which he continued to be identified for
eight years. In 1899, fortified with the practical experience thus
gained, Mr. Jacobs established his home in Wayland and assumed
the position of engineer of the power house of the electric light
system. One year later he secured a similar position at the plant of
the Gunlocke Furniture & Chair Company, of this place, and ihis
incumbency he retained for three years. . He then removed to Co-
hocton, this county, where he erected and ecpiipped a canning fac-
tory, with the operation of which he was actively identified for the
ensuing three years. He passed the following eighteen months as
engineer for the Wayland electric light plant and then assumed his

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present position as engineer and general mechanician for the Gun-
locke Pumiture & Chair Company, with which he had previously
been employed. Mr. Jacobs is found arrayed under the banner of
the Democratic party, but has never had aught of ambition for
public office.

In the year 1895 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jacobs
to Miss Carrie Belle Kimball, who was born and reared in Steuben
county and who is a daughter of Sylvester and Lydia (Schutt)
Kimball, who now reside in the village of Wayland, where the father
is living retired after many years of earnest efEort as one of the
representative farmers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs have
five children, namely: Ruth May, Vera Catherine, Roy Albert,
Dorena and Lillian Lydia.

Willis L. Hamilton, a manufacturer of Campbell, Steuben
county. New York, was born there April 14, 1860. John D. Hamil-
ton, his father, a native of the state of New York, settled there in
the middle of the last century and established a tannery at Curtis.
He established another at Campbell and a large one at Emporium,
Pennsylvania, and had an interest in a leather store at Boston,
Massachusetts, where some of his products were marketed. As a
Republican, he was several times elected supervisor of the township
of Campbell. As a member of the Presbyterian church he was lib-
eral in its upbuilding and support. In a general way it may be
said of him that he was a man of much public spirit, who con-
tributed generously toward the support and promotion of all causes
having for their object the enhancement of the general good. He
died at his home in Campbell, aged sixty-two. Lewis Hamilton, his
father, grandfather of Willis L. Hamilton, was of Scotch extraction
and was among the pioneers in Steuben county. John D. Hamilton
married Miss Harriett Lovell, who died, leaving a son and a daugh-
ter. The latter is Mrs. Sarah H. Pope, of Campbell.

Willis L. Hamilton was reared and educated in Steuben county
and early in life became associated with his father in the manage-
ment of the latter's business, of which he was sole owner and man-
ager after his father's death till he closed it out to the United
States Leather Company. About 1886 he engaged in the manufac-
ture of wood alcohol at Newton, McKean county, Pennsylvania.
His business is one of the largest of its kind in the country and is
constantly growing.

Mr. Hamilton married Mary E. Piatt, a daughter of C. P.
and Mary E. Piatt, of Painted Post, New York. They have a daugh-
ter, Harriet, who married Henry E. Joint, of Campbell. Mr. Hamil-
ton is a stanch Republican and a Son of the American Revolution.
Following in his father's footsteps, he is open-handedly helpful to
all worthy local interests at Campbell.

Andrew Redsecker. — Among the loyal and public-spirited
business men of Steuben county, New York, Andrew Redsecker holds
a secure place in popular confidence and esteem. Though a native

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of Germany, his patriotism to the land of his adoption has ever
been of the most insistent order. He gave valiant service as a soldier
in the Civil war, as did also his father and three brothers, and his
entire life course has been marked by upright honesty and sterling
integrity of character. He was born in Germany, and the date of
his nativity was March 17, 1838. His father, Nicholas Eedsecker,
was a coachman in a noble family in the fatherland, and there was
solemnized his marriage to Miss Barbara Strauss, who was sum-
moned to the life eternal in 1907, at the age of eighty-seven years.
They became the parents of twelve boys and two girls and of the
number Andrew was the only one born in Germany. Nicholas Eed-
secker emigrated with his family to America in 1845, at which time
Andrew was about seven years of age. They settled near Patchins-
ville, this county, where the father engaged in farming, and he be-
came a man of prominence in public affairs in the early days. At
the time of the inception of the Civil war he enlisted as a private
in Company D, One Hundred and Sixty-first New York Volunteer
Infantry, and he sacrificed his life in the cause of the country, as
he was killed in 1864 at the battle of Gettysburg, at which time he
was fifty years of age. Four of his sons likewise gave gallant serv-
ice in defense of the Union and three of them were killed.

Andrew Eedsecker received his rudimentary education in the
common schools of Steuben county and he is now the only one living
in the family of fourteen children. He was reared to the sturdy
discipline of the home farm, in whose work he early began to assist
his father. When nine years of age he left the farm and entered
the employ of Dr. Patchin, serving as a hired man for a period of
five years. After his father's death he was drafted for one hundred
days' service in Company D, One Hundred and Sixty-first New York
Volunteer Infantry, his command being assigned to the Army of the
Potomac, under General Grant. He served until the close of the
war and was mustered out of service on the 14th of April, 1865.
Thereafter he initiated his independent business career as an hotel
man in Wayland and he continued to be engaged in this line of
enterprise for a period of five 3'ears, at the expiration of which time
his hotel burned down. He then engaged as an agent in the tomb-
stone and undertaking business, with headquarters at Wayland, and
he has been identified with this most important field- of endeavor
during the long intervening years to the present time. He is a
stanch Eepublican in his political convictions and he has aided ma-
terially in the progress and development of this section of the state.
He is a charter member of Wayland Post, Grand Aritiy of the Ee-
public, and his religious views are in accordance with the tenets of
the German Lutheran church, in whose faith he was reared. In
public life he is fair, honorable and outspoken — in private life he
is true, kind and tender and at all times, under all circumstances
he is Just, loyal and markedly courteous. He is a man of most
generous impulses and his charity knows only the bounds of his
opportunities.

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In 1860 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Eedseeker to Miss
Catherine Wolfinger, and to them were born ten children, four of
whom are now living, namely: John, who is engaged as a baker
at Eoehester, New York; Henry, who is in Eochester; Catherine,
who is the wife of Casper Sehnltz, of Livingston county; and Eose,
who is unmarried, resides in the city of Eoehester. Mr. Eedseeker
married in 1884, Matilda Eiehard, who died in 1903, leaving one
step-child, Nettie Eiehard, known as Nettie Eedseeker. She was
raised by Mr. Eedseeker.

Henet V. PeatTj lawyer and ex-president of Wayland, is one
of the best known citizens and Democrats of his part of Steuben
county, New York. He was born at Prattsburg, Steuben county,
February 5, 1865, a son of William B. Pratt, late of Prattsburg,
deceased, and a great-grandson of Captain Joel Pratt, the first set-
tler in the town of Prattsburg. His mother occupies the old Pratt
homestead, where he was born and which has been in the Pratt fam-
ily more than a century. Two brothers, William B. and Ira C.
Pratt, live at Prattsburg, and two sisters, the Misses Emily B. and
Alice C. Pratt, are members of their mother's household.

Henry V. Pratt attended Franklin Academy at Prattsburg,
where he was duly graduated in 1885. In 1890 he was graduated
from Cornell University and in 1891 was admitted to the bar and
entered upon the practice of his profession at Wayland in February,
1893, and has there won a commendable success. From 1894 to
1906 he was junior member of the law firm of Clark & Pratt, the
other member of the firm being William W. Clark, now a Justice of
the supreme court. He has been a director of the First National
Bank of Wayland since it was incorporated and is interested in one
way or another with other enterprises at Wayland in the country
round about. He is now and for many years has been corporation
attorney for Wayland, served as president of the village, and is high
in the counsels of the Democratic party in Steuben county.

In 1896 Mr. Pratt married Miss Amelia C. Folts, of Wayland,
daughter of George Folts, now at Pasadena, California, but formerly
a merchant at Wayland. Two children have been born to them:
Kathrvn C. bom October 31, 1897, died September 13, 1899; Schuy-
ler B."was horn October 31, 1903.

In many ways Mr. Pratt has demonstrated the public spirit
that makes him so good and patriotic a citizen. In all his career at
Wayland, covering a period of nearly a score of years, he has never
failed to yield hearty co-operation and support to any measure that
has appealed to him as likely to be conducive to the public good.
In office and out of office he has done all that has been within his
power to advance the best interests of his fellow citizens, and espe-
cially as an official has he commended himself by his fidelity and
indefatigable devotion to public duty to the good opinion of all who
have watched his course with commendation of his past and friendly
predictions of success for his future.

860 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

H. BuKR WiLLAKD^ druggist and postmaster, Campbell, Steuben
county, was born at Hornell, September 1, 1849. His father, Henry
G. Willard, a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, was brought as a
little boy to Steuben county by his parents. Stephen Willard, father
of Henry G. and grandfather of H. Burr Willard, came of an old
Massachusetts family and was a pioneer in Steuben county. He
located in Thurston township about 1833, having bought a large
tract of land there. He bought much timber land and came in time
to own many thousand acres. He was a blacksmith by trade, and
also owned land, but he himself, did very little farming. Henry
G. Willard resided in Steuben county until 1867, when he moved to
a farm near Lansing, Michigan. His wife was Miss Jane Love
Eddy, a native of Tompkins county, New York. They had three
sons and a daughter, all of whom grew to maturity.

H. Burr Willard, the eldest of the children just mentioned, re-
members his removal with his father's family to Cameron Mills
when he was about nine years old. A year later they moved from
Cameron Mills to Thurston. At fourteen he went to Bath, where
he remained some years. Going to Michigan, he attended the agri-
cultural college at Lansing, and remained with his father until he
attained to his majority. After living about a year and a half in
Kansas he went to Avon, New York. In 1873 he returned to Steu-
ben county and in 1874 entered upon employment in the Curtis
lumber office at Curtis, New York, in which he continued some
years. In 1883 he located at Campbell, engaging in the drug trade,
in which he has since continued with much success. He has been
postmaster there since 1899. He has been in business twenty-eight
years in Campbell.

Mr. Willard married Miss Amelia Northrup, daughter of Nor-
man and Marilla (Harwood) Northrup, representatives of a family
long prominent in the county, closely identified with its earlier his-
tory. They have four children. Harriet married E. C. Peebles, of
Springfield, Massachusetts. George Northrup Willard lives in New
York city. Frances is Mrs. Darius L. Dean, of New York city. May is
a member of her parents' household. A strict and active Repub-
lican, Mr. Willard is influential in local affairs. He was for many
years a member and a part of the time president of the school
board, and held the office of supervisor six years. He is president
of the Hope Cemetery Association and a member of the board of
trustees of the Presbyterian church. In all ways in which a man
of broad views may do so, he has demonstrated his public spirit, and
it has had much to do with the advance of Campbell during the two
decades last passed.

Peter Johannes Kimmel. — The commercial interests of Way-
land are in part vested in the capable hands of Peter Johannes Kim-
mel, who is one of the important factors in the Kimmel Hardware
Company, one of the thriving business interests of this progressive
and up-to-date center. He is a native of the place, his birth having

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occurred here on September 15, 1871, and his parents being Martin
and Clara (Vogt) Kimmel. The father had his nativity in Ger-
many, that country which has given to America one of her finest
sources of emigration, and shortly after becoming a citizen of the
land of the stars and stripes he settled in South Danville, and made
his living as a day laborer. He married and gave to the state a
number of boys and girls who developed into good citizens, and who
are, to enumerate, as follows: Martin, a farmer residing near Way-
land; John, of Wayland, manager of the Cohocton Canning Com-
pany; Prank, a farmer living near Wayland; Jacob, of the Cohocton
Canning Company; Catherine, who married Edward Eitz, engaged
in the tailoring business in Eoehester; Anna, wife of William San-
bier, a resident of Wayland; Clara, wife of Erederick Schmitz, of
Wayland; Elizabeth, bookkeeper and cashier of the Kimmel Hard-
ware Company, and Helen, who resides upon the old homestead.

Peter Johannes Kimmel received a public school education, at-
tending both the common and high school of Wayland and later
securing employment with the company of Whitte'd & Jervis, dealers
in dry goods, with whom he remained in the capacity of clerk for
four years. Ambitious for a more thorough education Mr. Kimmel
matriculated at the Canisius College in the city of Buffalo and pur-
sued his studies at that institution. His father had established a
dry goods business and upon his return home he entered the store
and remained for a year. He then left for Cohocton, where a
branch hardware store had been opened by the Kimmels, and for
two years he had charge of this branch, showing a great deal of
executive capacity for a young man of his years. He subsequently
bought his brother's interest at Cohocton. The Wayland house had
been changed to M. Kimmel & Sons and it thus remained until
March, 1909, when the business was incorporated as the present
firm, known as the Kimmel Hardware Company, which consists of
Mr. Kimmel and his brothers, John and Jacob, the subject serving
in the capacities of secretary and treasurer. He was associated with
his father for eleven years and greatly profited by that gentleman's
excellent commercial ideas. His interests are not limited to the
hardware enterprise, but likewise extend to the Cohocton Canning
Company, which was founded by himself, his father and his broth-
ers, John and Martin.

Mr. Kimmel inaugurated a happy and congenial life companion-
ship, when on December 4, 1894, he was united in marriage to Miss
Catherine Merz, who was born in 1871. She is a daughter of
Christian Merz, a native of Cohocton, and a mason and contractor
by trade. To Mr. and Mrs. Kimmel has been born one child, a son,
Cornelius, born November 17, 1896, and now in attendance at the
high school of Wayland. Mr. Kimmel and Tiis wife and son are
members of St. Joseph's church and the former belong to the Catho-
lic Mutual Benefit Association. His political inclinations are with
the Democratic party, but he is not an office seeker, having no desire
for the honors and emoluments of public station.

863 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

Frank E. Aulls, proprietor of the Campbell Eoller Mills, was
bom in Bradford, Steuben county, August 7, 1878. Frank Aulls,
his father, born near Urbana, this county, was reared, educated and
married in "Old Steuben." His father, Ephraim Aulls, was born
in Connecticut, became a pioneer in Steuben county and settled at
Pleasant Valley as a farmer and lumberman. Frank Aulls, a farmer
and lumberman in his turn, married Mary E. Eowlett in Wayne,
Steuben county, in 1863. She was a daughter of the Rev. James
Eowlett, a native of Scotland and educated in Dublin. He early
settled in Steuben county, where he labored as a minister of the
Presbyterian church. Mr. Aulls died, aged fifty-three years. His
widow is living at Bath in 1910. They had five children. Leslie
died at the age of twenty-four. Fred died when he was eight years
old. Velnett married Dr. J. P. Longwell, of Wellsboro, Pennsyl-
vania, and died when she was about thirty-four. Anna is the wife
of D. Beach Bryan, deputy postmaster at Bath. Frank E. Aulls,
youngest of this family of children, lived in Bradford until he was
twenty-one years old, attending the common schools there and the
Haverling High School at Bath. After farming about two years
he built a feed mill at Bradford in 1898. He operated it about two
jeSiTS, then sold it and in 1900 bought the water-power roller mills
at Campbell, which have a daily capacity of fifty barrels of wheat
flour and thirty-five barrels of buckwheat flour. He is interested also
in the Steuben County Creamery at Campbell.

In 1900 Mr. Aulls married Miss May Charlton, of Peekskill,
New York, who died in 1906.. His present wife, whom he married
in 1909, was Miss Marguerite E. Cox, daughter of William 0. and
Anna E^ Cox, of Cleveland, Ohio, and a native of that city. He is
a Eepublican, active and influential in the local work of his party,
and a member of the Campbell school board. An alert, up-to-date
business man, he is at the same time a public-spirited citizen, gener-
ous in support of all progressive movements.

Vincent L. Tripp. — The subject of this sketch, Vincent Leroy
Tripp, was born at Cohocton, New York, October 24, 1869. As a
lad he removed with his parents to Cambridge, Maryland, in 1876,
where he attended the boys' school. Later the family returned to
New York state and became residents of Hammondsport, which
nestles among the vine-clad hills at the head of Lake Keuka. It
was here he grew to young manhood, attending the Hammondsport
High School, formerly the old academy.

In 1887 Mr. Tripp entered the office of the Hammondsport
Herald, then as now ably conducted by Llewellyn H. Brown, to
learn the newspaper and printing business. Upon the completion
of his apprenticeship he worked as a journeyman printer in New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Buffalo and other cities. In 1892
he went from Buffalo, where he was employed in the office of the
Buffalo Express, to Atlanta, New York, where with his brother,
Milton E. Tripp, as a partner he purchased and conducted the At-

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lanta News. In the fallowing year, 1893, the business was removed
to Cohocton, New York, and the name of the paper changed to the
Cohocton Index. This partnership continued until 1899, when, ow-
ing to poor health, his brother sold his interest in the business to
Mr. Tripp, who has since successfully conducted it. In October,
1902, Mr. Tripp bought the plant and good will of the Cohocton
Valley Times, which was established in 1871, and consolidated that
paper with the Index, changing the name to the Cohocton Valley
Times-Index, under which title it is still published.

The building which is the present home of the paper was pur-
chased by Mr. Tripp in 1908. The paper enjoys a wide circulation
and holds the good will of its readers to a remarkable degree. It
is printed all at home on its own presses and in its own building.
The Job printing department has attained a splendid reputation for
the execution of artistic printing.

Mr. Tripp was united in marriage with Miss Emma Zimmer,
December 6, 1893, 'a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Zimmer.
Mr. Zimmer is a prominent vineyardist of Lake Keuka, New York.
To this union one son, Harold Curtis Tripp, was born November 37,
1896. He died January 30, 1911, after a short illness with scarlet
fever, being fourteen years of age.

To glance at the parentage of jMr. Tripp, he is the son of Sidney
Reynolds and Jane Jenks Tripp, both natives of the Empire state,
but now residents of Delta. Colorado. The former was born in
Cohocton, New York, and the latter in Sparta, New York. The
family of Sidney E. and Jane Tripp consisted of six children, four
of whom survive at the present day. Bertha 8. is a trained nurse
at Delta, Colorado; Vincent L. is the subject of this sketch and
resides at Cohocton, New York; Milton R. is engaged in the poultry
business at Delta, Colorado, and Earl C. conducts a newspaper at
Kennewick, Washington.

Mr. Tripp's paternal grandfather was Job Tripp, a native of
Seneca county. New York. The Tripp family history in this country
dates back to the early settlement of Rhode Island.

Monroe D. Ray. — For a number of years has Monroe David Ray
been actively identified with the viticultural interests of Steuben
county. New York. Energetic, enterprising and successful in a ma-
terial way, he is also honored and respected as a citizen, and has so in-
delibly stamped his individuality upon the community as to become
a potential factor in its civic and public affairs. Mr. Ray was born
in Pulteney, Steuben county. New York, on the 7th of May, 1887,
a son of Thomas and Minnie (Hughes) Ray, both of whom were
residents of Pulteney, New York, at the time of their marriage.
Thomas Ray claims Port Hope, province of Ontario, Canada, as the
place of his birth, the day of his nativity being May 17, 1860, and
the mother was born at ilexico, Oswego county. New York, on the
5th of January, 1865. Mr. and. Mrs. Thomas Ray now reside at
Hammondspoi't, the father being a vineyardist by occupation, and
their onlv child is him whose name initiates this review.

864 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY

Monroe D. Ray was reared to adult age in the place of his
birth and as a youth he attended the district schools, rounding out
his education by a course of two years in the high school at Ham-
mondsport. When sixteen years of age he entered the office of the
Columbia Wine Company, at Hammondsport, in the capacity of clerk
and at the present time he has risen to the important position of
bookkeeper in this thriving industrial concern. The Columbia con-
cern is one of the most important of its class in the town. In pol-
itics 'My. Bay accords an unswerving allegiance to the principles
and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor; he is
a man of great public spirit and one who lets no opportunity pass
to aid to the extent of his ability any movement which in his good
judgment promises to benefit a considerable number of his fellow
citizens. Fraternally he is affiliated with Keuka Tribe, iSTo. 386,
Improved Order of Bed Men, and he is also connected with the
Hammondsport Hook & Ladder Company, No. 1. In his religious
faith Mr. Eay is a devout communicant of the Protestant Episcopal
church, in which he is a member of St. James' parish, at Ham-
mondsport.

Henky B. Newell. — For fully three decades was Henry B.
Newell engaged in the newspaper business at Wayland, Steuben
county. New York, and during that time he was editor of the
Union Advertiser, which was a paper of broad influence in this sec-
tion of the state. He was born in Wayne county, New York, on
the 4th of July, 1847, and is a son of Cyrus and Sally (Edwards)
Newell, both of whom were born at Sodus, New York, and both are
now deceased. The father was a shoe manufacturer by trade and he
settled at Avoca, Steuben county, in 1848. Some time later he
removed to Wayland, where he erected a tannery, the first and for
a number of years the only tannery in Wayland. Mr. and Mrs.
Cyrus Newell became the parents of eight children, seven of whom
are now living. The father was summoned to eternal rest in 1908
at the patriarchal age of ninety-five years and his devoted wife passed
away February 8, 1898, at the age of seventy-four years. Both were
prominent and influential citizens in this county during their lives
and they held a secure place in popular confidence and esteem.

Henry B. Newell, the immediate subject of this review, received
his early educational training in the public schools of Steuben county
and he was apprenticed at the shoemaker's trade for a period of
two years, at the expiration of which he was associated with his
father in the work at the tannery for the ensuing three years. There-
after he turned his attention to the newspaper business and in 1874
he became editor of the Union Advertiser, at Wayland, which he
continued to conduct for thirty years. Under his management the
Union Advertiser became one of the most important publications
in Steuben county, and it is now run by other parties, who pur-
chased it at the time of Mr. Newell's retirement, in 1904. During
the last few years Mr. Newell has been engaged in literary work,
writing extensively for many of the best periodicals in the country.

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In politics he endorses tlie cause of the Democratic party and he is
atmiated with many fraternal and social organizations of repre-
sentative order. His religious faith is in harmony with the tenets
of the United church, and he has ever been a liberal contributor to
all matters projected for the good of humanity. He is a man of fine
mentality and broad information, is possessed of considerable lit-
erary talent and is public-spirited and loyal in the largest sense
of the word.

Catherine, wife of Mr. Xewell, was born at Sandy Hill (this
county) in 1852. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Engel, reside in
Wayland. He is over ninety years of age and his wife some years
younger. Eight children were born to them, and all yet survive.
Two children were born to Henry B. Newell and his wife, Katiej
born in 3 882, and Julia, born in 1886, both living.

Martix a. TtiTTLE, who has been for nearly fifty years one of
the active citizens of Hornell, was bora in Columbus, Chenango
county, March 2, 1842. His ancestors immigrated from England
in 1635 and settled in Xew England. His grandfather, Uri Tuttle,
was one of the pioneers of this state, having moved from Connecticut
to Columbus, Chenango county, in 1798, where he made a home for
himself and family. He died in 1859. His father, Harley Tuttle,
was an active and prominent man in his native town. He died in
1851, aged forty-four years. ^

Mr. Tuttle's mother was Alma M. Adsit, a daughter of Leonard
Adsit and Fannie Davenport, also pioneers of Chenango county.
His mother died in 1843 at the age of thirty-three years, leaving
six children. Alma M. Adsit's maternal ancestors were English and
her grandfather, Noah Davenport, served as a private soldier during
the Eevolution; her paternal ancestors were Welch, and her grand-
father, Martin Adsit, and her great-grandfather Benjamin Adsit,
were soldiers of the Eevolution.

Martin A. Tuttle, the youngest child, leceived his educa-
tion in the common school of his native town. Taking charge of
the home farm at sixteen years of age, from that time he has passed
a life of continued activities. In 1864 he came to Homellsville
and entered the general store of Martin Adsit & Co. as clerk. In
1868 he became a member of the firm .of Adsit & Tuttle. In 1874
this partnership was dissolved. Mr. Tuttle with Messrs. John and
Ira Davenport of Bath, having the year before bought the Erastus
Stevens farm in the southern part of the village of Homellsville,
which they laid out into city lots with Mr. Tuttle in charge.

Six years later the dry goods firm of 31. A. Tuttle & Co. was
formed, L. W. Eockwell being the company. Tn 1882 a branch
store was started in Wellsville. The following year Mr. Eockwell
withdrew from the firm, taking the Wellsville store. In 1889 the
firm of Tuttle & Eockwell Bros, was formed, which was a few years
later incorporated as the Tuttle & Eockwell Co. with M. A. Tuttle,
president, and L. W. Eockwell, treasurer.

866 HISTOEY OF STEUBEX COUXTY

Mr. Tuttle's activities in other lines have been numerous, as
farmer, produce buyer, temperance advocate, president of the Business
Men's Association, member of Board of Managers for Hornell Pair,
and of the Hornell Chamber of Commerce, at present president of
the Maple City Land Co. of Hornell. As an active party Prohibi-
tionist he has done much hard veork in no license campaigns and for
the Prohibition party.

In 1869 he married Malene Hart, daughter of Charles N. and
Eliza Allen Hart of Hornellsville, who were among the earliest set-
tlers of the town of Hartsville, where Mr. Hart became prominent
as an extensive lumber dealer and buyer of fat stock. The town
of Hartsville takes its name from the Hart family. Both the Harts
"and Aliens are of English origin and were represented in the Con-
tinental Army by Jeremiah Hart and Barnabas Allen. Mr. and
Mrs. Tuttle are the parents of ten children, eight of whom are now
living. As follows, — ^Alma E. (Mrs. Mark H. Milne), Madelia Hart,
Gertrude S., Charles N"., Marion Bell, Abbie Allen, Edith A. {Mts.
Adam L. Davidson), Euth Hart.

Allen M. Bukeell is one of the veteran attorneys of Steuben
county, a man of ability and sterling character, whose record of
more than half a century is an ornament to the profession. Xow,
crowned with years and honor, he is gradually transferring his
practice to his son, Charles Burrell, who is in partnership with him_;
the firm of Burrell & Burrell enjoying high prestige in Steuben
county. Mr. Burrell is a native son of New York, his birth having
occurred at Lansing, Tompkins county, April 8, 1838.

Allen Burrell spent his early years on a farm near Greenwood,
in Steuben county, and there acquired those habits of industry and
thrift which have insured his success in life. At a later date he
was associated with his brother in the carriage building industry,
their establishment being in the village of Greenwood. It was suc-
cessfully conducted for some seven years. During this period Mr.
Burrell commenced to realize his youthful ambition by reading law
with Hon. Martin Grover and Lewis Simons, who were then engaged
in the practice of their profession at Angelica, Alleghany county, as
among the foremost members of the bar of that section of the
state.

In the fall of 1854 Mr. Burrell became a resident of Hornell,
concluding his law studies in the office of John K. Hale, a well
known attorney of that place, and in December of the year named
was admitted to the bar at Eochester. Having mastered his profes-
sion, in 1855 he entered into another distinct phase of his life by
marrying; and still another in the spring of 1860, when he moved
to Canisteo, which has since been his home and the main field of his
professional advancement. As before mentioned, his son Charles is
in partnership with him; the junior member of the firm also holds
the office of justice of the peace. In politics Allen ]\I. Burrell is a
Eepublican.

HISTOEY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 867

In the month of June, 1855, Mr. Burrell's happy married and
domestic life was inaugurated by his union with Mary A. McClay,
whose father was a prosperous dairyman of Greenwood, and the
parents have been residents of Canisteo since May 10, 1860. During
this period of more than half a century, both they and their chil-
dren have earned deep respect and high honor. Two of their off-
spring died in infancy, the living sons and daughter being Glen,
Harry, Ella, William and Charles. The only daughter of the family
married Fred C. Goff, a resident of Eacine, Wisconsin.

John Milne. — The parents of John Milne were born in Scot-
land and many of the good traits associated with the citizens of
that country belong to him. In every nook and corner of the wide
world the traveler will find the Scotchman; everywhere plodding,
patient, determined, steadfast, reliable, prosperous. It is of such
stock that this estimable business man, engaged in gas plumbing
and fitting, comes, and the name alone would divulge the secret of
his nationality. David Milne was born in Glasgow, and the mother,
Catherine McDougall Milne, in another part of the land of, the
thistle. When they were still young people they emigrated to the
Land of Promise lying across the Atlantic and their union was sol-
emnized in Oswego, New York. David Milne was engaged in busi-
ness similar to that which occupies his son, the subject of this sketch,
for he was a builder of gas light plants. He was superintendent of
a gas light plant at the time of his death, which occurred in 1873.

John Milne was born on February 15, 1867. He received his
education in Hornell and early concluded to follow in the paternal
footsteps in the matter of choosing his life work. In 1871, when he
was a lad about fourteen years of age, he began to learn this im-
portant and intricate business in which so much skill is required.
The steadiness of his race has been with him and he has climbed
up the ladder, until he is now the superintendent of the Hornell
Gas-Light Company and has filled this position since May, 1896.

Mr. Milne laid the foundation of a happy household by his mar-
riage on May 30, 1889, to Miss Hannah Haggerty, a daughter of
Jeremiah and Katherine Haggerty. Three children are growing up
beneath their roof, these being: Chester, born in 1900; Mary,
born February 28, 1905 ; and Julia Ann, born on December 18, 1908.

The religious faith of j\Ir. and Mrs. Milne is Catholic. The
head of the house gives his support to the men and measures of the
Democratic party and is interested in the issues of the day. He
holds membership in the Eoyal Arcanum. He is a thoroughly self-
made man. His father died when he was a boy and left his mother
with eight small children. Every one who was old enough, and
some who were not, had to help in the struggle to keep the wolf
away from the door and all of them have been prospered by their
hard work, industry and integrity. Mr. Milne is a respected citizen
and commands the respect of all who know him. A brother- of Mr.
Milne is an Episcopal clergyman, and another brother is a dentist in

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Rochester, New York ; one brother is in the gas and plumbing busi-
ness, and there are two unmarried sisters.

Ira Egjelston has been a resident of Steuben county from the
time of his nativity and is a scion of one of the old and honored
families of this county, with whose history the name has been
identified for more than a century. He is the owner of a fine landed
estate, in Pulteney township, and he still gives a general supervision
to its work, though he maintains his residence in the village during
the winter seasons.

Mr. Egelston was born in Pulteney township on the 9th of May,
1849, and is a son of Thomas and Betsey M. (Clark) Egelston. His
father was likewise born in Pulteney township, in the year 1812,
and was a son of Benjamin Egelston, who likewise was born in the
same township, a fact that clearly indicates that the family was
founded in Steuben county in the very early pioneer epoch. The
parents of Mr. Egelston continued to reside in Prattsburg township
until their death and were folk of sterling characteristics, ever hold-
ing a secure place in popular confidence and esteem in the com-
munity. ''

Ira Egelston was reared to the discipline of the home farm
and he has never found it expedient to sever his allegiance to the
great basic industry of agriculture, in connection with which he has
achieved distinctive success and carried forward the work instituted
by his father and grandfather in the earlier days. His educational
advantages were those afforded by the district schools of his native
township and he has long been numbered among its successful fann-
ers and stock-growers. He is a substantial capitalist and he takes
a lively interest in all that touches the welfare of the county that
has so long represented his home and to the development and up-
building of which he has contributed his due quota.

In politics Mr. Egelston has been actively identified with the
Eepublican party from the time of attaining to his legal majority'
and he has been influential in connection with its affairs in his home
county. He served from 1901 to 1909 as supervisor of his native
township but has never been ambitious for public office. Though
not formally identified with any religious organization he attends
and is a liberal supporter of the Presbyterian church, of which his
wife is a zealous ro.ember. He is affiliated with Hornell Lodge of
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in the village of
Hornell. i - '^'i^

Mr. Egelston was married to Miss Anna DeKay, who was born
and reared in Pulteney township. Mr. and Mrs. Egelston have one
son, P. T., who was bom in April, 1872, and who now has practical
charge of his father's farm; he married Miss Eva Gibson, of Pul-
teney township.

Gilbert K. Ellis, M. D. — Though he has been engaged in the
practice of his 'profession but a short time in Pulteney township
Dr. Ellis has gained distinctive popularity both as a physician and

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 869

surgeon and as a citizen of utmost loyalty and public spirit. He
maintains his home in the village of Pulteney and his practice is
of a distinctively representative character, giving him prestige as
one of the successful physicians and surgeons of Steuben county.

Dr. Ellis was born at Clayton, Jefferson county. New York, on
the 39th of May, 1857, and after availing himself of the advantages
of the public schools of his native town he continued his studies
for some time in Hillsdale College, at Hillsdale, Michigan, to which
state his parents removed when he was very young. In preparation
for the work of his chosen profession he entered the medical depart-
ment of the celebrated University of Michigan^ in which he was
graduated as a member of the class of 1887, and from which ho
received his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. He initiated
the practice of his profession in Erie county, New York, and there-
after followed his professional work at different points in the west.
He finally returned to his native state and in April, 1910, he estab-
lished his home at Pulteney, Steuben county, where he has since
continued the work of his profession with unqualified success. He
is a member of the New York State Medical Society and the Amer-
ican Medical Association. The doctor is a close student of his pro-
fession and keeps in touch with the advances made in both medicine
and surgery. In politics he accords a stanch allegiance to the cause
of the Eepublican party and he is affiliated with Pulteney Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

In the year 1879 was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Ellis to
Miss Sparks, who was born and reared at New York, and the three
children of this union are George L., Belle J. and E. A.

Henry E. BAEDEB]sr. — This life long citizen of Steuben county
was born in the town of Prattsburg, November 17, 1837, a son of
Moses and Margaret (Edson) Bardeen. His parents, natives of Mas-
sachusetts, were early settlers there and acquired about three hun-
dred acres of land. His father was a soldier under the stars and
stripes in the War of 1812 and became a man of recognized influence
in this part of the county. He was twice married. His second wife
bore him nine children, as follows: Edna, Mary Ann, Luther,
Catharine, Moses, Edmund, Olive, Letitia and Henry E. Edna is
dead. Olive is the wife of Thomas Cornish, of Eochester, New York.

Henry E. was reared on the home farm and sent to the common
school near by. In September, 1864, he enlisted for service in the
Civil war in "Company C, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Eegi-
ment. New York Volunteer Infantry, and was in active warfare till
the end of the struggle. He participated in six engagements, includ-
ing that at Stony Creek. Eeturning to Steuben coiinty in October,
1865, he began farming on the land he now occupies and has made
a notable success which marks him as one of the best farmers in the
north part of Steuben county.

December 29, 1860, Mr. Bardeen married Ellen Smith, a native
of Schuyler county, New York, who has borne him children as fol-

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lows: Charles, Emma, Herbert, Elmer, Orpha, Ella May, Bertha,
Carrie. Ella May and Bertha are dead. Carrie is the wife of
Prank Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Bardeen are members of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church of Prattsburg, and are among the foremost
of those who contribute to its support and promote its advancement.
Mr. Bardeen has been active in connection with Grange No. 12, and
is a member of the Grand Array of the Eepublic, of which he is
proud. In his political alliances he is stanchly Republican. He
owns two hundred acres of land four miles northwest of Prattsburg,
well improved and with a good residence and ample barns and other
storage facilities. Until his retirement he worked at various times
as a carpenter.

Sterling T. Boyd is one of the popular native sons of Steuben
county, where he is now incumbent of the office of game and fish
commissioner, in which he is giving most discriminating and effect-
ive service. He resides on the fine old homestead on which he was
born, in Pulteney township, and here gives his attention to diversi-
fied agriculture, the while he finds ample demands upon his time in
connection with his official duties. He is a young man of marked
ability and enjoys unalloyed popularity in the county which has been
his home from the time of his nativity.

Sterling T. Boyd was born in Pulteney township on the 26th
of May. 1884, and is a son of George and Adell (Wagener) Boyd,
the former of whom was likewise born in Pulteney township. George
Boyd became one of the successful agriculturists and grape-growers
of Pulteney township, where he continued to reside until his death,
on the 13th of January, 1910, and his wife still resides in the old
homestead. George Boyd was a man of sterling character and was
influential in legal affairs of a public nature. He made his life
count for good in all its relations and his death was uniformly de-
plored in the community which had been the place of his abode
throughout his entire life. He was Republican in his political pro-
clivities.

Upon the homestead where he now resides Sterling T. Boyd
was reared to maturity and after completing the curriculum of the
district school he continued his studies in Cook's Academy. After
leaving school he was employed for a time as clerk in a hardware
store at Bath and later there came due recognition of his popular
and specific eligibility when he was appointed to his present office
of fish and game commissioner of Steuben county. He was reared
in the faith of the Republican party and has never deviated from his
allegiance thereto. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of
America and he still remains with his widowed mother at the old
homestead, which is endeared to him by the memories and associa-
tions of the past.

Mhs. Marion (Hampton) Webb, of Hornell, is a native of Liv-
ingston county, New York, and was born July 1, 1854, a daughter

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of Philo and Clarissa (Wright) Hampton. Her father, also a native
of Livingston county, Few York, born in 1831, was a iine mechanic
who gave his attention to mill-wrightihg as a specialty. In his polit-
ical affiliations he was a Republican. Of a domestic turn of mind,
he never aspired to a public life and never sought or accepted polit-
ical office. He united with the Baptist church when he was eighteen
years old and was a consistent member of that great religious body
as long as he lived. Mrs. Clarissa ("Wright) Hampton was born
in Rochester, New York, February 5,. 18'^9, and is living at Batavia,
New York, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. Philo Hampton
was one of eleven children of his parents' family. The others were
named Polly, John, Sabia, Thaddeus, Isaac, Sally, Fanny, Benja-
min and Andrew, and one who died young. All of them are now
deceased. ^

Marion Hampton and Shepherd Webb were married May 8,

1875. The following information concerning their ' children will be
interesting in this connection. Wade Hampton Webb, born August,

1876, is a farmer. He enlisted for service in the Spanish-American
war in Company K, One Hundred and Forty-seventh New York
Regiment, but got no nearer to the seat of liostilities than Camp
Alger, where he was honorably discharged and mustered out. Her-
bert Webb was born March 3, 1879, and married Miss Alma McCre-
vey May 7, 1909. He is a locomotive engineer and they live at
Fitzgerald, Georgia. Anna was born April 23, 1881, and died
January 8, 1886.

Peter Bricks. — A respected farmer and a man well known not
only in Perkinsville, where he now makes his home, but throughout
the county, is Peter Bricks. He is a native of Germany, in which
country he was born in 1843. His parents, Anthony and Mary
(Backus) Bricks, became citizens of the United States in 1846, Mr.
Bricks being but three years old at the time they crossed the Atlantic.
They lived for a while in South Dansville, but eventually the father
bought fifty acres of land west of Wayland in Wayland township,
where he farmed on a limited scale. Ho lived here until his death
in 1873, his widow surviving him for twenty-two years. This couple
were the parents of five children, Stephen, jMargaret, John, Peter
and Elizabeth, Peter being the only one alive at the present time.

Mr. Bricks gained his education in the public schools of Steuben
county and while a lad learned the trade of harness maker, which
he followed until his enlistment at the time of the Civil war. This
was in 1864, in which year he became a member of the military band
attached to the Second Brigade, Twenty-second Army Corps. He
received honorable discharge at the close of the rebellion. Upon his
return home he abandoned his trade and took up agriculture, in
which he has proved eminently successful. He has accumulated one
hundred and ninety-seven acres in three separate tracts, this consti-
tuting a very valuable property. Mr. Bricks operates his farms in
the most modern style, using scientific methods and the most im-
proved implements. He also has various other holdings.

872 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

Mr. Bricks has been excise commissioner four times and four
times assessor, the latter office being held by him at the present time.
He is an enthusiastic Grand Army man, being post commander of
Theodore Slick Post, No. 314, of Wayland, New York. After he
returned from army life he organized the Perkinsville Cornet Band
of fourteen pieces, and he has held the leadership of this for over
thirty years. This band is known far and wide for its excellence,
this quality being in large part due to the vigilance and inspiration
of its guiding spirit.

Mr. Bricks assumed marital ties on June 3, 1866, when he was
united in marriage to Miss Mary Gross. Their union has been
blessed by the birth of thirteen children, eight of whom are living,
as follows : Nicholas, Elizabeth, Catherine, Joseph J., George, ilary,
Theresa and William.

George P. Ellis, Hornell, was born in Steuben county, Au-
gust 28, 1860, a son of Albert and Matilda (Newson) Ellis, the
former a native of Livingston county, New York. He was educated
at Mt. Morris, Livingston county and began life on his own account
as a farmer at the age of twenty years. His present farm of ninety-
six acres he bought of Dr. Walker. He is a Eepublican in his polit-
ical convictions, but takes little active part in political work and has
no aspirations for office holding.

March 12, 1880, Mr. Ellis married Miss Diana McMichael, a
daughter of Philip and Mary (Hyde) McMichael, both of whom are
dead. The McMichaels are an old Pennsylvania family, and it was
in the Keystone state that Mrs. Ellis' parents passed their lives,
busy and useful people in their community. To Mr. and Mrs. Ellis
have been born six children, named as follows in the order of their
nativity: Mary, Lorin, Esther, Ira, Lee and Leo. The last men-
tioned is dead.

Mr. Ellis is a man of public spirit, who is ready at any time
to do his full share for the advancement of any cause which in his
opinion promises good to any considerable number of his fellow
citizens. As a business man he is progressive and successful. He is
of the type of man sometimes referred to as "forehanded," as is
evidenced by the fact that he carries a good policy on his life in the
New York Mutual Life InsiTrance Company.

Nancy S. Clakk was born at Naples, New York, November
21, 1833, a daughter of John L. and Sophia Clark, who were born
in Ontario county of that state. The death of the father in 1835
and the passing away of the mother shortly afterward left the little
daughter an orphan when but two years old, and she was then taken
into the home of Mrs. George Wheeler and reared to the age of
maturity. Of the eight children which were born to her foster
parents, only a son, Jackson Wheeler, survives, and his home is in
Kanona, New York, but he spends his winters in Florida. The
Wheeler place, which is one of the oldest family estates in Steuben

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county, is managed by a granddaughter of Mr. Wheeler, whose home
is in Illinois. Miss Nancy S. Clark is a member of the Methodist
church at Kanona, and is prominently associated with its Ladies'
Aid and Missionary Societies.

Phineas G. Wakeen is a sterling representative of one of the
fine old pioneer families of Steuben county and it is interesting to
note here that the homestead on which both he and his father,
Francis M. Warren were born, has been in the possession of various
members of the name for more than a hundred years. On the 4th
of March, 1865, in Bath township, this county, occurred the birth
of him to whom this sketch is dedicated. He is a son of Francis M.
and Sophia Willis (Howard) Warren, the former of whom was born
on the 19th of August, 1838, and the latter on the 36th of March,
1841. The father was reared a farmer and his preliminary educa-
tional training included a course in the high school at Bath. He
has now reached the venerable age of seventy-two years and now
maintains his home with his son on the fine old ancestral estate,
where resides also his wife, who is sixty-seven years of age. Francis
~Sl. Warren is a stanch Eepublican in his political proclivities and he
and his wife are devout members of the Presbyterian church, in whose
faith they were reared. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Warren are
three, namely: Evangeline, who is the wife of F. E. Bradley, a
farmer in Bath township; Adeline, who married James Little, also
resides in Bath township; and Phineas G. is the immediate subject
of this review.

The Warren family traces its ancestry back to stanch English
extraction and the original progenitor of the name in America was
one John Warren, who was born and reared to young manhood in
England, whence he immigrated to the New World, in 1630, settling
at Waltham, Massachusetts, where he beicame a prominent real
estate and business man and where he wielded a potent influence
for good in community affairs. His grandson, Jonathan, was born
at Waltham, was a gallant soldier in the war of the Eevolution and
he died on the 4th of October, 1834, at Marlboro, Vermont. The
latter's son Phineas was a major in the Twelfth Massachusetts Militia
in the War of 1813 and in 1836 he was a colonel in the Ninety-sixth
Massachusetts state militia. Dwight Warren, A brother of Francis
il. Warren and an uncle of him to whom this sketch is dedicated,
was first lieutenant in the One Hundred Eighty-ninth New York
Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war and he is now living in retire-
ment at Three Oaks, Berrien county, Michigan. The foregoing
shows the remarkable loyalty and public-spirited interest ever mani-
fested by members of the Warren family in matters affecting the wel-
fare of the nation from earliest Colonial times.

Phineas G. Warren early availed himself of the advantages
afforded in the common schools of his native place and then at-
tended the high school at Bath, Steuben county. He has passed his
entire life thus far on the old homestead farm on which he was

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born and in addition to his general farming he makes a specialty of
the raising of breeded poultry and of Holstein cattle. While he
endorses the cause of the Republican party in all matters of national
import he maintains an independent attitude in local affairs, pre-
ferring to give his support to men and measures meeting with the
approval of his judgment. Although reared in the faith of the
Presbyterian church he usually attends the Methodist Episcopal
church, of which his wife is a member. In a fraternal way he is
affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees and with the Grange.
On the 8th of March, 1894, at Fairport, Monroe county. New
York, was solemnized the marriage of ]\Ir. Warren to Miss Lottie
J. Havens, the only child of Francis M. and Phoebe (Hart) Havens,
the former of whom was a mechanic in early life but who is now
. a retired farmer. He was a soldier in the war of the Rebel-
lion, participating in many of the important conflicts marking the
progress of that sanguinary struggle, in which he served for a period
of four years. Mrs. AVarren is; a high-school graduate and was af-
forded an excellent musical education in her girlhood.. She is a
woman of most pleasing personality and is deeply beloved by scores
of admiring friends. To Mr. and Mrs. Warren have been born three
children, namely: Hazel C, whose birth occurred on the 17th of
March, 1895; Hilda, bom February 22, 1898, and Dwight Francis,
born on the 17th of September, 1904.

Mr. Warren is a man of broad and liberal views, there being
nothing narrow or intolerant in his nature. He is enterprising and
progressive in all the terms imply, lives in the present, and, taking
a pardonable pride in his community and state, has faith in their
future and uses his power and influence to make this faith realize
the largest possibilities. Socially, he is an affable gentleman, genial
in manner, agreeable in conversation, courteous to all with whom he
mingles, and he impresses those with whom he has business or other
relations as possessing a power of mind and force of personality in-
dicative of 'the natural leader in large and important undertakings.

Emery A. Robinson. — It is pleasing to record in this publica-
tion that many of the native sons of Steuben county have here found
ample scope for successful effort along industrial and commercial
lines of enterprise and among this number is Mr. Robinson, who
has been actively identified with agricultural pursuits from the tim^
of his youth, save for a brief interval. Emery Adelbert Robinson
was born in Dansville, this county, on the oth of Septejnber, 1860.
and is a son of Eliphalet and Susan (Kridler) Robinson, the former
of whom was bom in Steuben county, on the 31st of December,
1820, and the latter in Pennsylvania, in the year 1838. The father
died on the 16th of December, 1893, and the mother passed away
in the preceding year. The Robinson family is of stanch English
extraction and was founded in New England in the colonial epoch
of our national history. The Kridler family found representatives
among the early citizens of the state of Pennsylvania and the

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 875

lineage is traced back to German origin. Eliphalet Eobinson de-
voted his entire active business career to agricultural pursuits and
he was one of the representative farmers and stock-growers of Steu-
ben county for many years, having been the owner of a well improved
farm in Dansville township. Of the children two sons and four
daughters are now living.

Emery A. Eobinson was reared to the sturdy discipline of the
old homestead farm, which was the place of his birth, and his early
educational advantages were those afforded in the district schools
of Dansville township. He has never broken his allegiance to the
great basic art of agriculture except for a period of five years,
during which he was employed in the oil refinery of the Standard
Oil Company at Franklin, this state. When he was seventeen years
of age he initiated his independent career and for a long time he
was employed by the month at farm work. In politics though never
an aspirant for public office Mr. Robinson is found arrayed as a
stanch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party and "he shows
a distinctive interest in local affairs, doing all in his power to
further such measures and enterprises as tend to advance the general
welfare of the community.

On the 3d of July, 1885, Mr. Robinson was united in marriage
to Miss Amelia Came, who was born in Wayland township, Steuben
county, on the 33nd of November, 1864, and who is a daughter of
Reuben and Charlotte (Koash) Came, who were residents of Dans-
ville township at the time of their death. Reuben Came was born
in the year 1837 and his wife was born in 1828; she came with her
parents from Germany when ten years of age and the family settled
in Wayland township, Steuben county. Mr. and Mrs. Eobinson have
three children, concerning whom the following brief data are given:
William Frederick, who was born on the 27th of August, 1886,
married Miss May Loohn and resides in Hornellsville ; Charles E.,
who was born November 8, 1888, died on the 24th of January, 1892 ;
and John E., who was bom on the 13th of March, 1893, is now
attending the district schools near the parental home.

Moses Davison. — He whose name initiates this review has long
held prestige as one of the representative business men of Steuben
county and is still actively engaged in the mercantile trade, at
Bath, where he has a large and well equipped establishment devoted
to the handling of dry-goods, carpets, boots and shoes, groceries, etc.
It was his to give loyal service as a valiant soldier of the Union in
the Civil war and his sterling integrity of purpose in all the rela-
tions of life has retained to him the inviolable confidence and esteem
of his fellow men.

Moses Davison was born in County Cavan, Ireland, on the
17th of October, 1845, and is a son of William and Margaret Davi-
son, who were born and reared in the Emerald Isle and who were
representatives of stanch old families of County Cavan. In 1846
they emigrated to America, and soon after their arrival they estab-

876 HISTOKY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

lished their home at Bath, Steuben county, where they passed the
residue of their lives. They were folk of sterling characteristics,
honest, earnest and industrious, and they were not denied the full-
est measure of popular confidence and esteem. He whose name
initiates this article was afforded the advantages of the old Haver-
ling school, at Bath, an institution well known as Haverling Acad-
emy, and in 1861, when about fifteen years of age, he assumed a
position of clerk in the dry goods store of J. & L. Buhler at Bath.
When this firm retired from business Mr. Davison entered the em-
ploy of W. W. Willson, who here conducted a general mercantile
establishment, and this position he retained until 1864, when he
enlisted as a private in Company H, One Hundred and Eighty-ninth
New York Volunteer Infantry. He proceeded with his regiment
to the front and took part in all the engagements in which it was
involved from the time of his enlistment until the surrender of
General Lee and the close of the war. Mr. Davison received his
honorable discharge on the 13th of May, 1865, and then returned
to Bath, where he entered the employ of H. W. Ferine, who was
here engaged in the general merchandise business. In 1883 Mr.
Davison atid two others entered into partnership with Mr. Ferine,
under the firm name of H. W. Ferine & Company. This partner-
ship alliance was dissolved in 1884, but Mr. Davison continued with
the concern until 1890, when he formed an individual partnership
with Mr. Ferine, under the title of Ferine & Davison. This pleasing
and effective alliance continued until the death of Mr. Ferine, in
1896, and shortly afterward F. N. DeCamp, a son-in-law of Mr.
Davison, became associated with him in the conducting of the busi-
ness, which has since continued under the firm name of Davison
& DeCamp. Mr. Davison is recognized as one of the leading busi-
ness men of Bath, and the large and substantial trade built up by
his establishment is based upon careful and conscientious methods
and progressive ideas. Each of the several departments of the large
and well equipped store is maintained at a high standard, and the
trade of the concern is of an essentially representative character.

Mr. Davison has not hedged himself in with private business
interests, but has shown a loyal concern in all that has touched the
general welfare of his home town and county. He is a stanch sup-
porter of the principles and policies of the Eepublican party and
has served as township clerk, besides which he has been called upon
to serve in other offices of public trust. He is a member of the
directorate of the Bath Savings & Loan Association and is the
owner of valuable real, estate in his home town. He is past master
of Steuben Lodge No.. 113, Free & Accepted Masons, and is affili-
ated with Bath Chapter No. 95, Eoyal Arch Masons, and DeMolay
Commandery No. 22, Knights Templars, at Hornell. He also holds
membership in the Grand Army of the Eepublic.

In the year 1873 was solemnized the marriage of 'Sir. Davison
to Miss Eva Hall, who was born and reared in Steuben county. She
is .a daughter of the late Alexander Hall, who Was loiig numbered

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 877

among the well known and highly honored citizens of Bath. Mr.
and Mrs. Davison became the parents of two children, William and
Anna B., who is now the wife of F. N. DeCamp. Mr. and Mrs.
DeCamp have one daughter.- As has already been noted, Mr. De-
Camp is associated with Mr. Davison in business, and he has proved
an able coadjutor in the conducting of the enterprise.

Hon. Frank Campbell is a son of one of the old and honored
families of Steuben county and is one of its essentially representa-
tive business men. He has wielded much influence in political af-
fairs as a stanch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party,
and he served two years as state comptroller. He maintains his
residence in the attractive little city of Bath, where he is president
of the Farmers' & Merchants' Bank.

Mr. Campbell was bom at Bath, this county, on the 28th of
March, 1858, and is a son of Hon. Robert and Frances (Fowler)
Campbell. His father was likewise a native of Bath, where he was
born on the 1st of May, 1808, a son of Robert Campbell, who was
one of the first settlers of Bath, where he took up his residence
in 1795, having come to America from Glasgow, Scotland. Robert
Campbell, Sr., was a carpenter and builder, and he became one of
the prominent and influential citizens of Steuben county. The maid-
en name of his wife was Martha MeCauley, and she likewise was of
stanch Scotch lineage. Hon. Robert Campbell, father of him whose
name initiates this review, was afforded excellent educational ad-
vantages, including a course of a preparatory character in Hobart
College, which was then located at Geneva, New York, and in 1886
he began the study of law in the office of Kruger & Howell, which
was then the leading law firm of Steuben county. He was admitted
to the bar in 1829, and in initiating the active work of his profes-
sion he associated himself with William T. Worden at Auburn,
Cayuga county. About two years later he returned to Bath, where
he became associated in practice with his former preceptor. General
Kruger, under the firm name of Kruger & Campbell. He later
formed a partnership with Hon. Samuel H. Hammond. He gained
prestige as one of the leading members of the bar of this section of
the state and long controlled a large and important practice. He
was a stalwart in the camp of the Democratic party and gave effec-
tive service in behalf of its cause. In 1842 he refused the nomina-
tion of his party for the office of state senator, and in 1844 he was
a member of the Democratic National Convention, which nominated
James K. Parker for president. In 1846 he was elected by the
legislature a member of the board of regents of the University of
New York, and he continued incumbent of this office until the time
of his death. He was a member of the state constitutional conven-
tion of 1846, and in this position he gave most effective service in
formulating the new constitution. He was twic6 elected lieutenant
governor of the state — in 1858 and 1860 — and as ex-offieio ipresi-
dent of the senate he m.anif ested marked ability and dignity. As ■

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a member of the state canal board and in all other official positions
to which he was called his course was characterized by utmost loyalty
and fidelity, and he was indefatigable, in his efforts to promote the
best interests of the state and its people. As a member of the bar
he achieved prominence, though he was never notable as an elo-
quent advocate. The solidity of his legal learning was uniformly
recognized, and his briefs were models in diction and in the pre-
senting of the salient points at issue. He was very systematic and
laborious in his business habits and was a dignified and courteous
gentleman of the old regime, genial and kindly in his association
with his fellow-men and a man who ever commanded a secure place
in popular esteem and confidence. Both he and his wife continued
to reside at Bath until their death.

Hon. Prank Campbell gained his early educational discipline
in Haverling Academy, in Bath, and in a well-ordered educational
institution at Trenton, New Jersey. He early identified himself with
business interests, and in this connection he has been very success-
ful, having shown distinctive initiative and administrative ability.
In 1883 he became associated with his brother Clarence and others
in the organization of the Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank of Bath, and
of this solid and popular financial institution he is now president.

Mr. Campbell has long been a potent factor in connection with
the affairs of the Democratic party in this section of the state, and
he served several years as a member of the Democratic state com-
mittee, to which position he was first called in 1889. In 1891 he
was elected state comptroller, of which office he remained incum-
bent for the regular term of two years and in which he gave a most
careful and effective administration. In 1893 he was a delegate to
the National Democratic Convention, and from 1896 to 1900 he was
a member of the Democratic national committee. He is identified
with various fraternal and social organizations of representative
order.

Mr. Campbell married Miss Louise Willson, a daughter of War-
ren W. Willson, a representative citizen of Steuben county. Mr.
and Mrs. Campbell have one son, Willson E., who is now vice-presi-
dent of the Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank.

1.
John B. Smith. — A native son of Steuben county. New York,
John B. Smith is now engaged as engineer at Way land, and he is
recognized as a loyal and public-spirited citizen whose contribution
to progress and development in this section has been of prominent
order. Mr. Smith was born near Hornell, this county, on the 20th
of July, 1880, and is a son of Nicholas and Mary (Lisraan) Smith,
the former of whom is a native of Wayland township, this county,
where his birth occurred on the 14th of September, 1839, and the
latter was born in Prussia, on the 15th of August, 1838. Nicholas
Smith is a son of Jacob Smith, who was born and reared in Prus-
sia, a province of Germany, whence he came to America with a fam-
ily of six children in 1831. Settlement was made in the township

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6f Wayland, Steuben coiintv, Xew York, where the father engaged
in farming and the timber business, reclaiming a fine farm from the
virgin wilderness. Tlie nearest market for lumber in those days
was Eochester, New York. Al)out the rear 1846 Jacob Smith dis-
posed of his first farm and purchased two hundred and sixty-five
acres of most arable land in the vicinity of Perkinsville, where he
operated a saw mill, .^ending liis lumber 'to Dansville by way of the
old plank road. He was a devout communicant of the Catholic
church, and his death occurred in 187'5. at the age of seventy-seven
years. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Eaber, was sum-
moned to the life eternal in 184:9, at the age of forty-five years.
It is interesting to note here that Jacob Smith built the first log
house in Wayland township, and many a time the family awoke in
the morning and found snakes coiled up near the old fireplace.

jSTicholas Smith received such educational advantages in his
youth as were afforded in the locality and period, and after leaving
school he farmed for his parents until he had attained to the age
of seventeen years, at which time he entered upon an apprenticeship
at the blacksmith's trade, at Perkinsville, where he remained for
two years, at the expiration of which he began to travel, working at
his trade for the ensuing six years. He married and started black-
smithing at Hornellsville in 1861, residing in that village until 1865,
in which year he removed to Patchinsville, where he was similarly
engaged for three years. In 1868 he removed to Perkinsville, where
he maintained his home for some ten years. Thereafter he lived for
two years at another town and for another two years at still an-
other, then returned to Perkinsville for six years, and in 1885 he
came to East Wayland, where he was identified with agricultural
pursuits 'for the ensuing twelve years. In 1897 he went to Cohoc-
ton, where he engaged in the hotel business, and in 1899 permanent
residence was made at Patchinsville. In 1865 was recorded his mar-
riage to Miss Mary Lisman, who was born in Prussia on the 15th
of August, 1838, a daughter of John and Mary (Schat) Lisman.
The Lisman family came to America in the year 1848 and located
at old Sandy Hill, near Perkinsville, where the father engaged in
farming; he was county highway commissioner at one time. Mr.
and Mrs. Nicholas Smith became the parents of eleven children,
concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated:
Peter is a farmer near Patchinsville; Nicholas is similarly engaged
in the vicinity of Eogersville ; Jacob is a farmer near Cohocton ;
William is a machinist in the city of Rochester ; John B. is the im-
mediate subject of this sketch; Lena is the wife of Mr. Grant and
resides in Butte, Montana, as does also Mary, who wedded William
G. Smith; Barbara is the wife of Charles Brizette, who has a book
bindery at Butte, Montana; Lizzie married a Mr. Romey, of New
York; and Katie and Susie both maintain their home in Rochester,
New York.

John Benjamin Smith received his preliminary educational
training in the public schools of his native county, and he was asso-
ciated with his father in his various enterprises until he had at-

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tained to his legal majority. In 1901 he went to Rochester, where
he engaged in the restaurant business for a period of four years,
after which he became manager of a similar establishment for an-
other firm, and thereafter he spent three years as an engineer in
that city. In May, 1907, he established his home in Wayland and
here became interested in the hotel business, continuing to be iden-
tified with that line of enterprise until he again turned his atten-
tion to the work of engineering. Though never ambitious for the
honors or emoluments of public office, Mr. Smith is a stanch Demo-
crat in his political proclivities, and he gives his aid in support of
all worthy projects advanced for the general welfare. In a fra-
ternal way he is affiliated with various representative organizations
of a local character, and in his religious faith he is a devout com-
municant of the Catholic church. He is highly respected and
trusted by his fellow-citizens.

Geokgetta Smith was born at the old Smith home, Bath
township, Steuben county. New York, April 4, 1854, a daughter of
Matthew Smith. Her father, a native of Scotland, learned the stone
mason's trade when young and worked at it in the intervals of farm-
ing after he came to the United States. He bought a farm near
Savona, to which he added another, purchased later. He married
Agnes Smith, daughter of another Matthew Smith, but no known
relationship to himself. Her mother was Harriet Eichardson. Mr.
Smith of this sketch was a Democrat, active and influential in the
work of his party and in religion a Presbyterian, liberal and helpful
in advancing all the interests of his church. He was accidentally
killed by a horse in 1875.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith had five children, only one of whom — Miss
Georgetta Smith — is living. Their son John died aged fifty-six
years and their daughter Jeanette aged twenty-four. The others
died in infancy. Their mother died January 23, 1895, aged seventy-
six years. Miss Georgetta Smith was her father's favorite and was
much with him as long as he lived. After his death she devoted
herself to the care of her mother, whose faithful and sympathetic
companion she was until she too passed away.

Miss Smith is a woman of many accomplishments, friendly, help-
ful, charitable — a member and supporter of the Methodist Episco-
pal church. She has given her life for the comfort of those dear to
her and looks forward hopefully to the true Christian's reward.

Haeky C. Bkownson. — A native son of the fine old Wolverine
state, Harry Clark Brownson has been variously engaged in different
cities and states since attaining to his legal majority and he is now
following the trade of painter and paper-hanger in "Wayland, where
he has resided since 1905, and where his contribution to progress and
good government has been of the most insistent order. He was born
at Jackson, in the county of the same name, Michigan, on the 27th
of May, 1883, and is a son of Clark and Cora (Hotchkiss) Brownson,

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the former of whom was summoned to eternal rest in 1883, at the
age of thirty-four years, and the latter is still living, her home being
in Jackson, Michigan. J\Ir. Brownson was engaged as a carpenter
during his short life. He became the father of three children,— John
Wesley, who is a shoemaker at Dansville, Livingston county; Maud,
who is the wife of Charles Mayer, resides at Jackson, Michigan;
and Harry C, the immediate subject of this review. After the
death of her husband, Mrs. Brownson contracted a second marriage,
being united to James W. Holmes, who is now deceased. They
became the parents of one child, Jennie, who is the wife of Frank
Staub, of Jackson.

Harry C, Brownson was an infant at the time of his father's
death and his rudimentary education consisted of the advantages
afforded in the public schools of his native county and Eaton Rap-
ids, Michigan. He began to work when fourteen years of age and
later engaged in the lumber business in northern Michigan. Later
he was similarly engaged in the lake region and subsequently he
spent seven years at Exeter, ilichigan, attending school in the
winter time and following the lumber business in the summers. He
returned to Jackson, his parental home, and entered the employ of
the ilichigan Central Railroad Company. He continued to be iden-
tified with railroad interests in this city for one year. He was then
employed by the Pennsylvania Montpelier Railroad Company for an-
other year. Proceeding to Cleveland, Ohio, he spent seven months
in that city operating machinery, at the expiration of which time
he removed to Dansville, Livingston county. New York. There he
was engineer in the Blumther factory and in 1901 he severed his con-
nections with this concern to accept a position with the A. J. Werd-
ing Company in Dansville. Four years later, in 1905, he established
his home in Wayland, Steuben county, where he was employed by
Maynard Rosenkrans, and thereafter for about one year he worked
at the Gunlock Chair factory. In 1907 he turned his entire time
and attention to the trade of painter and paperhanger and in this
line of enterprise he is achieving most gratifying success. In politics
Mr. Brownson accords a stalwart allegiance to the cause of the Re-
publican party and though he has never desired public office he has
ever given freely of his aid and influence in support of all measures
and enterprises advanced for the general welfare of the community.
He is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his
wife is a zealous communicant of the Catholic church.

On the 6th of February, 1907, Mr. Brownson was united in mar-
riage to Miss Katherine Barbara Kuhn, who was born in Wayland
on the 13th of November, 1878, and who is a daughter of Jacob and
Thekla (Vogt) Kuhn. Mr. and Mrs. Brownson have two children —
Walter Jacob, who was born in 1908, and another child, bom on the
13th of November, 1910.

Frank Doughty. — In the matter of concrete accomplishment
Frank Doughty has marked the passing years with very intelligible

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and appreciable achievement, and lie is today numbered among the
oldest and essentially representative business men of the thriving
little city of Wayland, where he is a successful dealer in. farm produce
and where his course has been so guided as to retain to him unqual-
ified" popular confidence and regard.

Frank Doughty is a native son of Steuben county and a scion
of one of its old and honored families. He was born on the old home-
stead farm of the family, in Wayland township, on the 22d of Sep-
tember, 1839, and is a son of Wesley Doughty, who was bom in Xew
Jersey. He passed the closing years of his life in the village of Way-
land, where he died in 1896, at the venerable age of eighty-two years.
Wesley Doughty was a son of Zachariah and Phoebe Doughty, both
of whom were born and reared in New Jersey, whence they came to
Steuben county in the pioneer days, making the journey with two
ox teams and wagons, by means of which were transported their
household goods. Zachariah Doughty secured one hundred acres of
wild land in Wayland township, selecting a tract on which were large
pine trees and a creek. He erected a slab shanty and in this prim-
itive dwelling established a home for his wife and two children. He
set to himself the herculean task of reclaiming his farm from the
forest and eventually brought the greater portion of his land under
cultivation. He erected the first saw mill in this locality, and his
farm was two and one-half miles distant from the present village
of Wayland. Here he continued to reside until his death, in 1864,
at the age of eighty-two years, and his wife preceded him to eternal
rest, both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal
church. In politics Zachariah Doughty was originally a Whig, but
he transferred his allegiance to the Eepublican party at the time of
its organization, thereafter supporting its cause with all of loyalty,
besides which he did all in his power to support the Union at the time
of the Civil war, before the close of which his death occurred.

Wesley Doughty was a child at the time of the family removal
to Steuben county and here he was reared to manhood under the
conditions and influences of the pioneer era, assisting in the devel-
opment of the home farm and securing such advantages as were
afforded in the primitive schools. of the locality and period. He
eventually engaged in agricultural pursuits on his own responsibility
and became the owner of a good farm near the village of Wayland.
The locality has long been known as Doughty's Corners. Eventually
he purchased the old homestead secured by his father in the early
days, and members of the family have been prominently identified
with the development and upbuilding of this section of the county,
the name standing exponent of sterling integrity, well directed indus-
try and generous accomplishment in connection with, normal lines
of enterprise, including not only agriculture and stock-growing but
also dealing in timber, lumber, horses, cattle, produce, etc. Wesley
Doughty continued to be identified with farming and stock-growing,
as well as with the lumber industry, during his entire active career,
and he became one of the substantial business men and influential

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citizens of this section. He was loyal and progressive in his civic
attitude and contributed in large measure to the furtherance of en-
terprises and measures conserving the prosperity and advancement
of the county. He was one of those largely concerned in the build-
ing of the plank road between Wayland and Dansville, and in the
early days this was maintained as a toll road, having nine toll sta-
tions. He assisted in the upbuilding of the village of Wayland, where
he lived virtually retired during the closing years of his life. He
was a zealous and intelligent supporter of the principles and policies
of the Republican party and both he and his wife were devout mem-
bers of the Wesleyan Methodist church. He served six years as
county commissioner and was also called to other local offices of trust.
In a reminiscent way it is interesting to record that he was the first
citizen of Wayland township to have the distinction of owning a
buggy, and the vehicle attracted much attention at the time. Of the
six children of Wesley Doughty the subject of this review and the
four others survive : Murray, who is a representative agriculturist of
Springwater township, Livingston county, this state; Danford, who
is a successful farmer in Steuben county; Elijah W., who is now a
resident of Batavia, Genesee county; and Mary, who is the wife of
Mr. T>oucks, of Avoca, Steuben county.

Frank Doughty passed his boyhood and youth on the home farm
and early began to contribute his quota to its work, the while he
availed himself of the privileges of the local schools, whose discipline
was supplemented by a two years' course in Starkey Seminary. He
purchased a farm in Springwater township, Livingston county, but
two years later he sold that property and took up his residence in
the village of Wayland, where he was employed in a warehouse for
Ihc ensuing five years and where he became the owner of a good resi-
dence property. He finally sold his house and lot in the village and
purchased a farm near Avoca, where he remained one year. He
then returned to Wayland, but shortly afterward he purchased his
fatber-in-law's farm, in Springwater township, Livingston county,
a property which he still owns. After residing on the farm for one
year he returned to Wayland, where he served for nine years as sales-
man and bookkeeper for the firm of Humphrey & I\Iorris. Since 1901
he has been successfully established in business as a dealer in farm
pioducc, as junior member of the firm of Oliver & Doughty. The
firm controls an extensive business in the buying and shipping of
produce and branch establishments are maintained at Perkinsville,
Dansville and Cohocton, with headquarters at Wayland. The firm
ships an average of five hundred cars of produce each year and the
enterprise thus proves a valuable adjunct to the industrial and com-
mercial activities of this section of the state. Hay, grain and wool
are handled in large quantities and the reputation of the firm for fair
and honorable dealings is unassailable. In politics JMr. Doughty
gives his allegiance to the Republican party, and while he takes a
loyal interest in all that touches the welfare of the community he
has never had aught of ambition for official preferment. He is affil-

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iated with Phoenix Lodge, Xo. 115, Free & Accepted Masons, At
Dansville,. Livingston county.

In the year 1867 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Doughty
to Miss Frances Eobinson, who was born in Springwater township,
Livingston county, this state, on the 7tli of October, 1837, and who
is a daughter of the late Mason and Emma (Parshall) Eobinson,
honored pioneers of that county, where they continued to reside until
their death and where the father was a prosperous agriculturist.
Mr. and Mrs. Doughty have one daughter, Nora, who was born in the
year 1869 and who is now the wife of H. P. Masten, of Bentley
Creek, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where Mv. iMasten is a pros-
perous merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Masten have one child, Lenora, who
was graduated in the piano department of the conservatory of music
at Mansfield, Pennsylvania, and who is now pursuing courses in vocal
music and pipe-organ work.

Lowell Alphbus Penney, M. D. — This pioneer physician and
surgeon, prominent as a specialist in the treatment of cancers, was
born in Waterville, Maine, March 11, 1836, and his death, April 26,
1910, removed from Hornell one of its most venerable and distin-
guished citizens. George Penney, his father, was also a native of the
Pine Tree state, within whose borders he lived the simple, industrious
life of a farmer and died, aged seventy-five, after having enjoyed the
spiritual and material rewards of years well spent. The New England
family of Penney is of Scotch extraction and its earliest representa-
tives there were pioneers in the New World. George Penney mar-
ried Miss Malinda Bickford, who was born in Maine and lived to
be ninety-seven years old.

George and Malinda (Bickford) Penney had twelve children, all
but one of whom grew to maturity. Dr. Penney being the third child
and second son in order of nativity. He was educated in the com-
mon schools near his boyhood home and in the historic old academy
at Waterville. He learned the trade of buggy-making and in 18.5-2
emigrated to Pennsylvania, settling at Lockhaven, Clinton county,
where he found employment at his trade and was later in busiiicss
for himself fourteen years. He married there in 1853 iliss Cath-
erine Silvis, who was born and reared in that old town and who has
now reached the venerable age of seventy-five years, having first seen
the light of day November 19, 1835.

In 1866, the subject of this review removed to Emporium, Penn-
sylvania, and began the practice of medicine, for which he had pre-
pared to a great extent by study in his spare time at Lockhaven. He
continued his studies and was graduated in medicine at Philadelphia
in 1869. He was successful at Emporium, but decided to remove to
Wellsville, Allegany county. New York, which he did in 1874.
There he built up a good practice, of which he disposed in order to
locate in Hornell, where he was engaged in practicing his profession
uninterruptedly since 1880. For more than forty years he made a
«tudy of the nature, cause and cure of cancei-. The subject interested

HISTOEY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 887

him so deeply that he natiirally made a specialty of cancer treatment,
in which he achieved much success. His discoveries in this peculiar
field of medical and surgical investigation marked him as one of the
mo*t eminent practitioners in his line in this or any other country.
Hl' was a member of the Eclectic Medical Society and he was for a
time connected with the Steuben Sanitarium.

. . .. Dr. Penney was known as one of the "fathers of Kepublicauism,"
l.'ntil in the early fifties he was an unquestioning Democrat, content
with things national .as they .were. The questions which had eventu-
ally to be answered at the polls and on the field of battle drew him
: out of his conservatism and brought him to a new conception of his
duty as a citizen. He affiliated with abolitionists and other, reformers
and was soon so much of a reformer himself that he helped, to organ-
ize Republicanism, voted for Fremont and for Lincoln and shouted
for the Union, as all Republicans and most of the northern Democrats
did in the days of the Civil war. From that time on he acted con-
gisteiVtly with the Republican party in all its history-making work.
He was one of the oldest members of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows at Hornell and he has been a Mason for more than half a
century. In addition to his other interests he was the owner of a fine
I'arm of one hundred and thirty acres at Cameron ilills.

Dr. and Mrs. Penney became the parents of five children, one of
their sons dying in infancy. Their daughter Malinda is Mrs. D. A.
Coll', of Cohocton, Steuben county. Edith M. is a member of the
liousehold of her widowed mother. She was an assistant to her hon-
ored I'iither in his professional business, and is now a graduate pro-
fessional nurse specializing in the treatment of cancers. She pos-
sesses the formula of her father's remedies. Harry J. is a plumber
by trade and Margery is Mrs. Henry McEvoy, of Hornell.

William J. Smith, a prominent farmer near Bath, Steuben
, county. New York, was born in Elmira, Chemung county, New
York.' July 21, 1872, a son of Otis H. and Elizabeth (Sherwood)
Smilb. Otis H. Smith enlisted in 1861 in the One Hundred and
Sixty-liist Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and served
through the Civil war, receiving his honorable discharge as first
lieutenanl of his company. He was variously employed till 1874,
wlien he returned to Batli and engaged in the tinware buisness.
r.ator hv was in the warehouse enterprise for some years. Then, for
many years, he was known in connection with butchering and in-
surance interests, either together or singly. In politics he was
stanchly Republican, active to the time of his death. He was for
twenty or thirty years an official of the Bath Soldiers' Home. His
wife" was the daughter of a Baptist clergyman. They left a son and
;i daughter. The latter, Maud by name, is the wife of F. E. Wood,
nf New Mexico.

William T. Smith was brought up on a farm and educated in
public schools near his home. After leaving school he turned his
attention to farming, to which he has devoted all his active years

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with satisfactory success. He is a Eepublican and a member of the
Protestant Episcopal church. Though he wields a recognized politi-
cal influence, he is not himself an office seeker and has persistently
refused such as have been profl'ered him. He married Mary S. Pin-
ehin, who was born May 12, 1873, a daughter of Alhert and Polly
(Griswold) Pinchin, the first mentioned of whom died in 1904.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have had children named as follows: Ernest,
fourteen years old; Charles Otis, twelve; Frank, ten; William T.,
eight; Albert, six; Kenneth, four; George, two.

Allison Sidney Mann. — A wide-awake, industrious young
man, full of American vim and energy, Allison Sidney Mann, of
Bath, is carrying on a substantial business as an ice dealer, and is
well known as a valued and trustworthy member of the community
in which his life has been spent. He was born on the parental
homestead, in Bath, December 11, 1883, of English ancestry.

His father, the late George Mann, was born in Suffolk count}.
England, and was there bred and educated. Immigrating to this
country in 1875, he bought land in Bath, Steuben county. New
York, and embarked in agricultural pursuits. He met with excel-
lent success as a general farmer, and subsequently devoted a portion
of his time to the ice business, building up a good trade in this al-
most indispensable article of commerce. He died on the home farm,
in 1902, at the comparatively early age of fifty-three years. He
was a man of high moral principles, and a consistent member of the
Episcopal church. Pie married Emily Dament, who was born
fifty-five years ago, in Suffolk county, England, a daughter of
George and Jane (Nichols) Dament, and she still occupies the old
home in Bath. Seven children blessed their union, namely: Alli-
son Sidney, with whom this brief sketch is chiefly concerned; Eliza,
wife of Charles Wallace, who is engaged in farming in Bath; Mabel,
wife of Oran Thomas, a plumber in Buffalo; Cora, wife of William
Morse, lives on the homestead; Florence, wife of Frank Mullen, of
Buffalo; Laura, a stenographer, lives at home; Lillian, attending
school; and M. Noble.

Leaving school at the age of fourteen years, Allison Sidney
Mann assisted his father in the ice business for several seasons,
obtaining an insight into the details of its management, and on the
death of his father took entire management of the ice plant, and has
since had charge of both that and the home farm. He has met with
success as an agriculturist, and the Mann lee Company, of Bath,
is carrying on a very prosperous and lucrative business under his
supervision. Mr. Mann has never married, his time, mayhap, hav-
ing been too much engrossed by other matters. True to the religious
faith in which he was reared, he belongs to the Episcopal church.
Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, and
of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.

Fat H. White. — Actively engaged in the practice of a pro-
fession that demands a large measure of veritable talent as well as a

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comprehensive and technical knowledge, Fay H. White, of Corning,
is meeting with unquestioned success in his chosen vocation, his high
position as a man -and a lawyer clearly entitling him to representa-
tion in this biographical compilation. A son of Dr. Ezra M. White,
he was born, August 11, 1873, in Elmira, New York.

Born and reared in Caton, Steuben county. New York, Eugene
M. White, M. D., early resolved to enter the medical profession, and
having received his degree of M. D., was for nearly forty years
actively engaged in the practice of medicine in Steuben county, the
greater part of the time being located in Cohoeton. At the present
time, however, he is practicing in New York city. Dr. White mar-
ried Mary E. Van Wormer, a daughter of Valentine Van Wormer.
She was born in Cohoeton, in 1844, and there died at the age of
forty-nine years. Her paternal great-grandfather immigrated from
Holland to Massachusetts, where her grandfather, Lawrence Van
Wormer was born. Coming from the old Bay state to the Empire
state in 1806, Lawrence Van Wormer settled in Cohoeton, and there
spent the remainder of his life. Valentine Van Wormer was born
in Steuben county, New York, in 1812, and was here a resident until
his death, in 1897. The union of Dr. and Mrs. White was blessed by
the birth of two sons, namely: Dr. Ernest C. White, a practicing
physician in Paris, France ; and Fay M., with whom this sketch is
chiefly concerned.

After his graduation from the Cohoeton High School, Pay H.
White embarked in the real estate business, for two years being lo-
cated in Bath, Steuben county. Going from there to New York
city, he opened an office in that metropolis, and for twelve years
carried on an excellent business as a real estate broker. Ambitious,
however, to enter upon a professional career, Mr. White subse-
quently became a student at the Wesleyan College, in Genesee,
New York, and was graduated from its law department with the
class of 1909, and has since been successfully engaged in the prac-
tice of law at Corning, having already won a good standing among
his legal brethren.

Mr. White married, in 1903, Emma C. Cullen, a daughter of
William H. Cullen, of Macedon, Wayne county. New York, and
they have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth. Mr. White has large
real estate interests in Steuben county, and is active in social circles.
He is a member of the Steuben Society ; of the Delta Chi Fraternity
of New York city and of the Corning Club.

EiCHARD E. Enright.— Lieutenant Enright is one of the effi-
cient and popular officials of the police department of Greater New
York and is now acting captain in charge of the Vernon Avenue
Station in the borough of Brooklyn. He has been an active member
of the police department for nearly a decade and a half and his
record in this connection has been marked by fidelity to duty and by
his promotion to the ofiSce of lieutenant, of which he has been in-
cumbent since 1905.

890 HISTOEY OF S'JEUBEN COUNTY

Lieutenant Enright was born in the village of Campbell, Steu-
ben county, New York, on the 30th of August, 1871, and is a son
of Michael and Jett (Bennett) Enright, both of whom were born
in Ireland. Michael Enright was reared to about sixteen years in
his native land and he then came to America and settled in Steuben
county, where he continued to maintain his home for more than half
a century and where he died in 1904, at the age of sixty-eight years.
He was a man of sterling integrity and his career was marked by
consecutive industry and honesty of purpose. Both he and his wife
were communicants of the Catholic church, in whose faith they were
reared. Mrs. Enright was a girl of about twelve years at the time
of her parents' removal to America and she was reared to maturity
in Steuben county, where she continued to reside until her death,
in 1877. Of the nine children all but one attained to years of ma-
turity and of the number seven are now living. All of the children
were born in Steuben county. In that county William and Jere-
miah still maintain their homes; John and Michael reside in El-
mira. New York; Patrick is a resident of Los Angeles, California;
Jett resides in Brooklyn, New Y^ork; and Lieutenant Enright, of
this review, is the youngest of the children.

Lieutenant Enright is indebted to the public schools of his
native county for his early educational training and as a youth
he learned the art of telegraphy. After perfecting himself in the
same he was employed at various places in the state and he finally
removed to New York city, where he was employed for a time as
operator for the Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad, later by the
Erie & Western and finally by the Long Island Railroad. Besides
which he was for a time in the employ of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company. In 1896 he made a radical change of vocation by
joining the police force of New York city and he recalls with satis-
faction that at this time Theodore Roosevelt was police commis-
sioner of the city. In 1897 the Lieutenant was appointed secretary
to General Theophilus F. Rodenbaugh, Superintendent of Elections
in New York city. In 1902 he was promoted to the position of police
sergeant by Colonel John M. Partridge, who was at that time
police commissioner. In 1904 he was chosen Superintendent in
charge of the Bureau of Repairs and Supplies of the Police De-
partment and at the same time was advanced to the rank of lieu-
tenant, by Commissioner William McAdoo. In 1905 he received
his well-earned promotion to his present rank of lieutenant. In
1909 he was appointed Acting Captain of Police at the Gates Ave-
nue Station, in Brooklyn, and later he had charge of the Elizabeth
Street Station, the jurisdiction of which extended over the famous
"Chinatown" of New York. He assumed his position as Acting
Captain at the Vernon Avenue Station in 1910, and here he has
since continued to give most efficient administration of the duties
devolving upon him.

For several years Lieutenant Enright was president of the
Police Sergeant Benevolent Association, which at that time had a

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membership of nearly six hundred and fifty police sergeants iden-
tified with the Police Department of New York city. For the past
five years he has been president of the Lieutenants' Benevolent
Association, which has a membership of seven hundred and fifty
men, and he is also chairman of 'the Federated Police Organizations
of Greater New York, in which capacity he has presided at many
important social and business meetings of the organization. He is
affiliated with the Royal Arcanum, Brooklyn Lodge, No. 22, Benev-
olent and Protective Order of Elks, and is well known in the
borough in which he resides and in which his popularity is of the
most unequivocal type. He is a Democrat in his political pro-
clivities. The captain is a bachelor.

Claud Y. Stowell. — A rising young attorney of Corning,
devoting all of his energy to making a success of his chosen profes-
sion, Claud V. Stowell is fast winning for himself a prominent and
honorable name in the legal circles of Steuben county. He was
born July 26, 1882, in Lindley, Steuben county, and has spent his
entire life in this section of the state.

His father, Harry Stowell, and his grandfather, Richard P.
Stowell, have both been residents of Steuben county for upwards
of thirty-five years, and both have been active in public affairs,
serving as justice of the peace many terms, each discharging the
duties of his office with ability and fidelity.

Receiving his preliminary education in the district schools,
Claud V. Stowell subsequently prepared for college at the North
Side High School of Corning, and in 1908 was graduated from the
Law Department of the Syracuse University, at Syracuse, New
York. Locating in Corning on February 1, 1909, Mr. Stowell
formed a partnership with Neil W. Andrews, and was with him
engaged in the practice of law until March 1, 1910, when the part-
nership was dissolved. Talented and capable, he has made rapid
strides in his professional career, his legal skill and ability winning
him the confidence of the people, and he is now serving as acting
city judge, and as justice of the peace, in the latter capacity closely
following in the footsteps of his immediate ancestors. He is a
stanch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and is
much interested in public matters.

Mr. Stowell married, November 4, 1907, Elizabeth J. Harrison,
a daughter of Edgar J. Harrison, a well-known agriculturist. On
April 27, 1909, she passed to the higher life. Mr. Stowell is a mem-
ber of the Delta Chi Law Fraternity of the state of New York.

Belmont M. LaRue.— At 180 Broadway, in New York city,
are established the headquarters of Mr. LaRue, who is here suc-
cessfully engaged in the real estate business and who is one of the
worthy representatives of Steuben county in the national metropo-
lis. He was born at Hornell, Steuben county, on the 2d of Decem-
ber, 1869, and is the elder of the two sons of Henry Belmont LaRue,

892 HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY

who was born in the city of New York, whence he removed to Hor-
nell, Steuben county, about the year 1867. There he has since
maintained his home and for many years he has been one of the
honored citizens and prominent business men of Steuben county.

Belmont M. LaRue gained his. early educational discipline in
the public schools of his native place and in 1889, when nineteen
years of age, he removed to New York city, where he secured em-
ployment in the transportation department of the Erie Railroad.
Shortly afterward he assumed the position of private secretary to
the presideiit of the Title Guaranty & Trust Company, of New York
city, and this incumbency he retained for three years, within
which he gained most valuable business experience. He finally re-
signed his position to accept that of secretary to Colonel Samuel B.
Dick, president of the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad,
with headquarters in the city of Pittsburg. He was thus engaged
about three years, at the expiration of which he returned to the city
of New York, where he became secretary to Marcellus Hartley, one
of the directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Company and
prominently identified with many other capitalistic enterprises.
Mr. LaRue finally resigned his position and secured one with the
firm of Price, Waterhouse & Company, of London, England, a
concern that maintains offices in New York. In 1908 Mr. LaRue
began his independent operations in connection with the real estate
business, and in the same he has been very successful, having repre-
sented on his books at all times most desirable investments, both
city and country property, and also giving attention to the renting
of properties, as well as to collections. He is prominently con-
cerned in the exploiting of the Kelvin Grove addition to Westfield,
New York a tract of about ninety acres that has been effectively
platted and upon which improvements of the best order are being
made, including the erection of attractive houses, which have been
placed upon the market.

Mr. LaRue is an aggressive and enterprising business man and
is bringing to bear splendid executive powers in the handling of
his business interests, through which he has gained prominence as
one of the successful real estate dealers of the metropolis. Though
never manifesting any ambition to enter the turbulence of practical
politics, he takes a loyal interest in public affairs and his political
allegiance is given to the Republican party. He is a popular mem-*
ber of the Steuben County Society of New York City and retains a
deep interest in his native county. In the year 1897 Mr. LaRue
was united in marriage to Miss Lillian Benedict, daughter of Delos
and Letitia Benedict, of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Charles Griffith Young.— A nation's efficiency, its greatness
in a material sense, as well as its moral wellbeing, depends upon
whether its people can find their proper work, distributing them-
selves like a well-ordered army where each can do his best. There
can be no modicum of doubt that in his chosen field of endeavor

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Mr. Young has so placed himself as to make his efforts and activities
most productive and beneficent, as in his profession as a consulting
and construction engineer he has shown marked technical and
initiative power and has achieved large and definite success as well
as wide reputation, giving him prestige as one of the distinctively
representative members of his profession. He has his office head-
quarters at 60 Wall street. New York city, and since initiating his
independent career has added materially to the distinction which he
had previously gained in the employ of others. Steuben county
may well find pride in the character and accomplishment of this
native son, and he is a scion of old and honored families of the
county. Within the compass of a sketch of this order it is, of
course, impossible to enter into details concerning the various stages
of his professional career, but sufficient data will be offered to con-
vey an idea of the consistency of the foregoing statements.

Charles Griffith Young was born at Bath, Steuben county, on
the 1st of November, 1866, and is a son of Charles H. and Marian
(Kellogg) Young, the former of whom was born at Benton Center,
Yates county. New York, and the latter at Kanona, Steuben county,
where the Kellogg family was founded in the pioneer days. Mrs.
Young passed on in June, 1879, at the age of thirty-nine years.
Charles H. Young was a lad of twelve years at the time he removed
to Steuben county, where he was reared to manhood and eventually
became one of Bath's successful merchants. About the year 1898
he removed to Naples, Ontario county, where he continued to reside
until 'his death, which occurred on the 7th of September, 1908,
at which time he was about seventy-three years of age. Of the two
surviving children the subject of this review is the elder, and the
other is Marianna Young Quinby, now residing in Buffalo, New
York.

Charles Griffith Young gained his educational discipline by a
course in Haverling Academy, at Bath, Steuben county, from which
institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1885. In
the early part of the following year he began his technical training
in the establishment of the Schuyler Electric & Manufacturing
Company at Hartford and Middleton, Connecticut, where he fa-
miliarized himself with all departments of manufacturing, experi-
mental and testing work and with the practical erection and opera-
tion of electric lighting plants. In 1888 he became general super-
intendent of the Mount Morris Electric Lighting Company, of New-
York city, with which he continued to be prominently identified
until 1892, when he became identified with the interest of J. G.
White & Company and the White-Crosby Company, representing
one of the most important engineering-contracting concerns of the
kind in the world. In 1900 he associated himself with J. G. White
& Company, Limited, in London, England, and in this connection he
made special financial and engineering examinations, investiga-
tions, reports and negotiations for contracts in South Anierica, New
Zealand and various places throughout many other sections of the

894 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

world. From 1902 to 1905 he had entire charge of all construction
for the J. G. White interests in America, and with this great con-
cern he continued to be actively identified until February, 1909,
when he established himself independently in the work of his pro-
fession. While with the White corporations Mr. Young did a large
amount of expert financial and construction work in many of the
leading cities of the United States, as well as in the Philippine
Islands, Australia, Holland, Argentine Republic, Ceylon, Cuba,
Canada, Uruguay, Brazil, Porto Rico, China, Chili, New Zealand
and Japan. After establishing himself in the independent work of
his profession Mr. Young made his third trip around the world, hav-
ing been engaged to make certain important examinations and re-
ports in the far east. He left New York in February, 1909, and
during his absence of about seven months he again visited Hono-
lulu, Japan and the Philippine Islands, after which he passed
through China, Manchuria and Korea, thence to Vladivostock and
over the Siberian railroads to Moscow, and finally to Berlin, Paris
and London. He returned to New York city in September, 1909,
and here has since made his headquarters for his large and im-
portant work as a consulting and constructing engineer, in both
of which lines he is a recognized authority.

Mr. Young is a member of the American Institute of Elec-
trical Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the
Engineers' Club of New York City, the New York Railroad Club,
the National Electric Light Association, the New York Electrical
Society, the National Geographical Society, the American Electric
Railway Association, and the Steuben County Society of New York
City. He is a man of much initiative and marked resourcefulness,
and his high standing in his chosen field of endeavor affords the
best evidence of his fine technical and executive powers. He is a
man of genial personality and his sterling characteristics have
gained to him the confidence and good will of those with whom he
has come in contact during his wide and interesting business ex-
perience as well as those met in connection -mth social activities.
His political allegiance is given to the Gold-Democratic party, but,
subordinating all other interests to his profession, he has never
cared to enter the turmoil of so-called practical politics, although
interested in and identified with civic activities.

In October, 1891, Mr. Young was united in marriage to Miss
Bessie Curtis Leonard, daughter of Solomon M. and Elizabeth
(Hastings) Leonard, the former of whom was born at Troy, Penn-
sylvania, and the latter at Hammondsport, Steuben county, New
York, where her father was an honored pioneer and influential
citizen. Mr. and Mrs Young have one daughter, Elizabeth Gordon
Young.

William H. Farnham.— Few citizens of Addison contribute in
larger measure to the prosperity, of that attractive little city than
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trade throughout the southern tier of New York counties and in
Northern Pennsylvania. It is he who figures as captain of the im-
portant firm of Farnam & Reynolds, packers and wholesalers of
leaf tobacco, the business mentioned being one of those which lend
prestige to Steuben county. He is also one of the county's large
landowners, his property including several farms of great value.

Mr. Farnham has particular reason for that loyalty he gives
to Addison and the county, for it is dear to him through many asso-
ciations, among them the primary tie of birth, for in Addison his
eyes first opened to the light of day, November 11, 1860. The
scene of the early history of the Farnham family in America is
New England, that cradle of so much of our national history, and
the state of Connecticut was the birthplace of Mr. Farnham 's
father, George Farnham, who came a pioneer to Steuben county in
1856, only a few years previous to the birth of the subject. The
father was a merchant and lumber dealer and played a prominent
and praiseworthy part in the affairs of the community in which his
interests were centered. He was a man of remarkable business
sagacity and energy and there were few matters looking towards the
advancement and upbuilding of the community in which he was
not concerned. He was a Democrat, subscribing with enthusiasm
to its articles of faith and very influential in politics. This well-
remembered citizen died when seventy-six years of age. His wife,
mother of the subject, was a daughter of Steuben county, her maiden
name having been Julia Wambaugh. Her father, William Wam-
baugh, was an early settler here and has a place in history among
the leading pioneers. A man of force and ability he became a large
land owner and proprietor of sawmills and gristmiUs, and his
active and useful career was terminated by his death about 1856.
George Farnum and Julia Wambaugh were married in Steuben
county and became the parents of three children. Hannah C. is
the wife of Hon. Byron C. Stout, of Pontiac, Michigan ; George, Jr.,
is a wholesale dealer in boots and shoes in Buffalo, New York ; and
William H. is the youngest in order of birth.

William H. Farnham has given Addison unmistakable proof
of the sincerity of his devotion by electing to pass his active career
within its borders. Here he passed his boyhood and early youth
and to the excellent public schools is he indebted for his early edu-
cational advantages. He was fortunate in securing an exceptionally
good education, following his public school career with attendance
at Alfred University, in Alfred, Allegany county, and going
thence to that noted institution, the University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor. He had had some experience in the management of agri-
cultural property and after receiving his degree from the last-
named university, he took charge of the home farm for a time.
He eventually engaged in the produce and leaf tobacco trade and
was chiefly instrumental in developing the concern now known as
Farnham & Reynolds. In Masonry Mr. Farnham is locally promi-
nent.

898 HISTORY OF STEUBEX COUNTY

Sherman Smith, an enterprising and successful farmer in
Bath township, Steuben county, New York, is a native of the town-
ship, born on his present home, January 14, 1866. He is a son of
Andrew Jackson and Zidana (Le Gro) Smith, and grandson of
Charles and Azilla (Morgan) Smith. He great-grandfather, An-
drew Smith, immigrated to America in 1793 and the following year
took up three hundred acpes of land in Bath township, as men-
tioned in the sketch of Miss Nancy Smith, found elsewhere in this
work. Charles Smith, a pioneeer farmer of Bath township, was
born in 1796 and died in 1864. His wife was a daughter of General
Morgan, a soldier in the Revolution, who was captured by the
British and kept a prisoner in a man-of-war in New York harbor,
where he died. Andrew Jackson Smith was born on the old Smith
home, October 24, 1827, and died November 26, 1889. His wife was
a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Dudley) Le Gro. His early
married life was spent in Columbus, Ohio, where he kept a tin
shop. Later he^ returned to New York state and became a farmer.
Mr. Smith and his wife had nine children, as follows: Jeannie
Azilla, Samuel Le Gro, Mary Angelina, William Charles, Sherman
Tecumseh, Hoxie Wilber, Fred Douglass, Nellie Louisa and James
Lee.

After completing his education, Sherman T. Smith began farm-
ing with his father. He has been a farmer all his life, and has a
good dairy, keeping twenty cows and making a specialty of Hol-
stein cattle. He has been a Republican in politics, although he
has never cared for public office. He has always been identified with
every good cause and used his influence to promote the welfare of
the community. He is a worthy representative of a family that
has been most highly esteemed for many generations in Steuben
county and is accounted a public-spirited, useful citizen.

Mr. Smith married, March 14, 1900, Lizzie Grace Hadden,
daughter of James L. and Eliza Adelia (Silliman) Hadden, of
Bath township. She was born July 31, 1873, in Bath township.
Children as follows have blessed this union: Sherman T., Jr., nine
years of age, and Leon Burton, six years of age.

Dr. George Conderman was born October 15, 1868, in Fre-
mont, Steuben county, New York, and is a son of John D. and
Aseneth Conderman. His father first saw the light of day in
Warren, Herkimer county, New York, and eventually became one
of the early settlers of Steuben county. The grandfather, Adam
Conderman, brought his family to this section many years ago,
John D. being young at the time of the exodus. The maiden name
of the mother of the subject was Aseneth Spaulding, she being a
native of Tompkins county, New York, and a daughter of George
Spaulding, also born there, and who subsequently became a promi-
nent resident of Howard, New York. The father -died July 30,
1890, in Homellsville, New York, at the age of seventy, and the
mother is living in Homellsville at the age of eighty-five. They

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 899

reared a family of four sons— Prank, Laverne and George now be-
ing residents of Hornell, while Charles met with an accidental
death at the age of thirty-eight.

Dr. George Conderman was the youngest of the children born
to his parents. When six years of age he was brought by them to
Hornellsville, now Hornell, where he has since resided, his early
education being received at the public schools, he graduating from
the Hornell Free Academy in 1884. Taking up the study of medi-
cine under the preeeptorship of Dr. Clair S. Parkhill, he entered
the College of Physicians & Surgeons, of New York city. Taking
his degree from the University of Vermont in 1889, he completed
his medical education at the New York Post Graduate Medical
School and Hospital in 1890. For twelve years he followed the
practice of his profession in Hornellsville, New York.

In 1892 Dr. Conderman became financially interested in the
Clemons Belt Sander, a machine which eventually revolutionized
the question of sanding and today the same is in use in all the
principal countries of the world. He organized the Clemons Ma-
chine Company in 1892 and has served as its president since its
incorporation. The profits resulting from the manufacture and
sale of their product netted the company very satisfactory returns
and inasmuch as Dr. Conderman has ever been a firm believer in
the future of Hornell, he has invested largely in Hornell real estate
and today is the owner of some of the choicest property in the city.

Politically Dr. Conderman has been prominently identified
with the Republican party. He has represented his city for six
years on the board of supervisors and is at present a member of
the board of public safety. He is past exalted ruler of Lodge No.
364, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and has been
prominent in other fraternal societies. He affiliates with medical
associations, has been a contributor to professional literature and
he owns a fine and constantly growing library. In 1884 he married
Miss Mildred J. Boyd, of Hornellsville, New York.

Dr. Conderman is a type of citizenship characterized by those
of Dutch descent. He is liberal in his views, temperate in his
habits, upright and honorable in all his relations in professional,
business and social life. He is conservative in his business deal-
ings and possesses a well-poised intellect which qualifies him as
one of sound judgment. He is therefore able to hold positions of
responsibility and trust in a manner to merit the confidence of the
public.

Faey Buchanan Bebcher, a leading lawyer of Atlanta, Steu-
ben county, is also a prominent Democrat of this section of the
state, and has demonstrated his reliability, as well as merited pop-
ularity in the community, by his many years of service as justice
of the peace. A native of Fremont township, he was born on the
2nd of June, 1856, and is a son of Randall F. and Statira (Sand-
ford) Beecher. The father, who was born June 4, 1814, after

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receiving a tliorough education, according to the standard of his
day, adopted veterinary and agricultural matters as his life work.
In 1835 he settled in Howard township, where he remained until
1850, when he moved to Fremont township, purchasing a home-
stead near Joab's Corners. There he resided and honored the
family name until his death November 12, 1876.

The wife and mother was a native of Bald Hill, Ontario county,
New York, born on the 7th of September, 1821, and she died at
Atlanta, New York, October 6, 1909. She was of substantial New
England and German blood her father, Hezekiah Sandford, being
a native of the Green Mountain state, and her mother, Catherine
Yerton (before marriage), a daugter of the Germanic fatherland,
whose family first took root in the United States in 1817.

Although there were fourteen children in the family, ]Mr.
Beecher managed to give them all a good education, and as Fary
B. evinced a special aptitude for the acquisition of intellectual
capital he was particularly encouraged to continue his studies be-
yond the average standard. After mastering the common branches,
at the age of seventeen he commenced a course at the Rogers Union
Seminary, and afterward entered the office of 0. S. Scool, of
Cohocton, as a law student.

Admitted to the bar in 1891, Mr. Beecher was granted the
privilege of practicing in all courts of the United States, 1894, and
still later received his LL. D. diploma. He has spent his entire
professional life in Atlanta and is a most worthy representative
of his calling and of the best citizenship of the Empire state. He
commenced his official service as justice of the peace in 1880, and in
his capacity as a citizen has actively promoted the interests of
Democracy through his membership on the county committee and
his private efforts in behalf of the party which he so stanchly
supports. '

As a man of domestic tastes and virtues, Mr. Beecher in-
augurated this phase of his life by his marriage to Miss Emma E.
Johnson, daughter of William L. and Eliza J. (Ellsworth) John-
son. His wife was born on Christmas day of 1862. She certainly
has proven to be a precious gift to him and has presented him
with two sons and two daughters who have matured in a way to
gladden the hearts of their parents. Don. L., the eldest, is a de-
partment head in the large Sibley store of Rochester, New Y'ork;
Dana C, a progressive electrician of Canada: Una M., a teacher
now in Geneseo, Livingston county, and Marion is a bright student
in the Atlanta high school.

Mr. Beecher is a descendant of Hezekiah, one of three famous
brothers, Dr. Lyman, Hezekiah, and Linas, being descendants of
two brothers who came to this country on the Mayflower in 1620.
Mr. Beecher has devoted some time in collecting historical records
of the county and state, and that of the Randoll family, one of
whom was his father's mother, as well as the Beecher family, and
is now in possession of many interesting facts connected with this
subject.

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 901

Eev. Walter L. Lee, pastor of St. Patrick's parish, in the
eastern section of the city of Corning, is one of the most eminent
members of the Catholic priesthood of Steuben county. New York.
Devoted heart and soul to the cause to which he has given his fine
intellect, inspiring character and splendid executive traits, he is
revered and honored by priesthood and laity, and his work, al-
though virtually but begun, has been one of high and admirable
achievement. Father Lee was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario,
February 10, 1871, coming to Buffalo in early childhood. His
parents were John and Honora (Walsh) Lee, both of whom had
their nativity in Ireland, the former in County Westmeath, and the
latter in County Clare. John Lee was born May 9, 1834, and
when a lad but sixteen years of age he hearkened to the call of
opportunity from the shore of the New World and crossed the
Atlantic to claim his share. He made permanent location in the
state where he first touched American soil, drifting to the citj' of
Buffalo, where he resided almost continuously for the rest oP his
days. The clever young Irishman learned the carpenter's trade
and later became a general contractor, the independence and pros-
perity of which he had dreamed falling to his share in fullest
measure. He was a man of undoubted ability and among the
responsible offices held by him was that of lumber inspector at
Buffalo. The mother's birth was upon March 25, 1835. She came
to America in 1854, when a maiden less than nineteen years of age,
and two years later, June 2, 1856, she and John Lee were united in
marriage. After fifty years of devoted and ideally happy married
life, in 1906, they celebrated their golden wedding in Holy Angels
church, Buffalo, the church in which they had first exchanged their
marriage vows. The father died in Buffalo, June 28, 1909, and the
mother survived him only a little over a year, her demise occurring
September 14, 1910.

Rev. Father Lee received his preliminary education in the
Holy Angels' school, of Buffalo, and subsequent to that entered
St. Joseph's College, where he completed his classical course, grad-
uating in 1888. In September of the same year he entered Niagara
University, at Niagara Falls, where he began his seminary course
in preparation for the priesthood. In 1891 he received his Bac-
calaureate and in 1893 the degree of Master of Arts from Niagara
University. He is a student of rare attainments and that a useful
and brilliant career lay before him was evident even at that time.
He was ordained to the priesthood on June 8, 1895, by the Rt.
Rev. Bishop Ryan, at Niagara University, and a few days later
took up the work to which his many years of valiant preparation
had looked. It was in fact on June 20, 1895, that he was appointed
by Bishop Ryan, assistant to Very Rev. Dean Colgan of St. Mary's
church, Corning, New York. In this important field he had an
opportunity of manifesting his zeal and ability, and of assisting in
no small measure in the growth of the parish. In 1902, in evidence
of the marked approval of the elders of the church he was assigned

902 HISTORY OP STEUBEX COUNTY

by Rt. Rev. Bishop MeQuaid, of Rochester, to the pastorate of the
new St. Patrick's parish, founded that year in the eastern section
of the city of Corning, and in that pastorate he has since continued
his labors which have been crowned with the greatest success. As
an expounder of the Scriptures Father Lee is eloquent and en-
lightened and the affection and respect in which he is held by his
flock is of the highest order. He maintains fraternal relations in
two of the organizations for which the Catholic church stands
sponsor,— the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association to which he has
belonged since 1898, and to the Knights of Columbus, his member-
ship being with Corning Council No. 281. In both of the above he
has several times served as chaplain or spiritual director.

In the ensuing paragraphs is given a brief sketch of the history
and affairs of St. Patrick's parish, of Corning, New York, to which
have been devoted for the past decade the labors of Father Lee.
St. Patrick's parish was organized August 10, 1902, by Rt. Rev.
B. J. McQuaid, Bishop of Rochester, who appointed as its first
pastor Rev. Walter J. Lee, who, as previously mentioned, at that
time was assistant pastor of St. Mary's parish, of Corning, from
which parish the new St. Patrick's was detached. During the first
year, the services of St. Patrick's were held in the building which
stood at the corner of Market and Steuben streets, but these humble
quarters of course, were understood to be but temporary. In 1903
Father Lee began the erection of a handsome new building, de-
signed to serve as a parochial school, with church quarters on the
first floor, a plan adopted by the bishop of the diocese for every new-
parish. The cost of this building was about $23,000. The corner
stone was blessed on June 21st by Rt. Rev. Bishop McQuaid, who
also officiated at the dedication of the church and school on the 1st
of November, 1903. The site includes about two hundred and eighty-
two feet on East Brie avenue, west of Steuben street, on the corner
of which is located the rectory of St. Patrick's parish. The school
is under the supervision of the rector and is taught by the Sisters
of St. Joseph, who have their residence in the adjoining convent on
East Erie avenue. The parish numbers over 1,100 souls and
the school has an enrollment of two hundred and sixteen pupils.
Regents examinations are held in the school each year and at their
conclusion are held the graduating exercises for the pupils entitled
to diplomas, such admitting them to the Corning Free Academy.
The Alumni Association, at the end of eight years numbers over
one hundred members. The building is of the most commodious
character, and in the basement of the combined church and school
building is an assembly hall and library for the church societies. St.
Patrick's parish is now (in 1910) practically free of debt and a
building fund is in progress to provide the future new church.

Horace Dyer Baldwin, who was lawyer and prominent citi-
zen of Steuben county, represented one of its pioneer families. He
was born at Sherburne, Chenango county. New York, June 24,

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1838. His family history presents many distinguished members,
the name having been one to which attached much honor in Colonial
days, and its luster having by no means dimmed with the present
generation. Abram Baldwin, great uncle of him whose name
initiates this review, was born November 27, 1754 ; graduated from
Yale College in 1772; was chaplain in the Revolutionary war;
studied law ; and settled in Savannah, Georgia. He was a member
of the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1788 and a member of
the convention which framed the constitution of the United States.
He was representative in Congress from 1789 to 1799 and a mem-
ber of the United States senate from 1799 to 1807. He died March
4, 1807. A detailed history of this eminent statesman and patriot
is to be found in the American Monthly Magazine (published by
the Daughters of the American Revolution) for March, 1910, pp.
313, 314, 315 and 316. Joel Barlow, the renowned author of
"Hasty Pudding" and other productions, one of the "Hartford
Wits, ' ' married Ruth Baldwin, a member of the family of the sub-
ject. He was brigade chaplain in the Revolutionary war and pub-
lished the,"Columbiad" in 1808. He was minister to Prance in
1811. Another distinguished Baldwin was Judge Simeon E. Bald-
win, of the Connecticut supreme court.

Horace Baldwin, father of Horace Dyer Baldwin, was born at
Goshen, Litchfield county, Connecticut, August, 1796, and came to
Woodhull, Steuben county, in 1840. He was a merchant, one of the
first, in fact, in the village. He became well known and influential
in the county and was active as a business man until his death,
which occurred February, 1854. Horace Baldwin's father, Elisha
Baldwin, a native of Goshen, Connecticut, lived and died there.
He was of English descent and his family history was of the most
interesting character. By occupation he was a farmer. Rev.
Theron Baldwin, son of Elisha and brother of Horace Baldwin,
clergyman and educator, was born at Goshen, Connecticut, July 21,
1801, and was graduated from Yale College in 1827. After two
years' study in the theological seminary there he was ordained a
home missionary in 1829 and became one of the celebrated "Yale
College Band," or "Western College Society," of which he was
corresponding secretary during most of his life. He was settled as
a Congregational minister at Vandalia, Illinois, for two years and
was active in procuring the charter of Illinois College at Jackson-
ville, of which he was a trustee from its organization to his death.
He served for a number of years following 1831 as agent of the
Home Missionary Society of Illinois and in 1838 became the first
principal of the Female Seminary at Monticello, Illinois, of which
he was at the head for five years. He died at Orange, New Jersey,
April 10, 1870. Abram Baldwin, brother of Horace and Theron
Baldwin, also a graduate of Yale, died in the foreign missionary
service.

Horace Baldwin married Penelope Allen, who was born af
North Kingston, Washington county, Rhode Island, in 1796. Their

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wedding took place in 1835. He died in 1854, she in 1879 ; he aged
about fifty-eight, she aged eighty-three. They had but two chil-
dren, Horace Dyer and Clarendon. The latter was bom in Nor-
wich, Chenango county, in April, 1836, and died in September,
1897.

Horace Dyer Baldwin passed his boyhood daj's in Woodhull,
attending district school and J. S. Dolson, of Hornell, was one of
his earliest teachers. He later studied at Troupsburg Academy,
under the principalship of Professors Newell and Reynolds; he
attended the historic school at Woodhull in 1851; and was grad-
uated from Oxford Academy, Oxford, Chenango county, under the
principalship of Prof. Humphrey, in the fall of 1855. In 1859 he
matriculated at Alfred University, Alfred, Allegany county, where
he was graduated in 1863. In this latter interval— in 1861, almost
immediately after the outbreak of the Civil war — he enlisted in
Company E, Thirty- fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infan-
try, at Addison, and served with that organization until honorably
discharged for disability. After completing his education, he taught
school at Rathbone, Erwin, and Addison, Steuben county, for
three years, meantime studying la^v in the office of Hon. F. C. and
Col. J. W. Dininny, at Addison. He was admitted to the bar at
Rochester, New York, at the general term of the supreme court of
the state of New York, in June. 1866, and was for three years
thereafter associated in the practice of law with his former pre-
ceptors at Addison. Since then, individually, he gave his attention
to general practice in all the courts of the state, with a degree of
success that is well known to his fellow citizens at Addison. He
presented the somewhat remarkable record of having been for forty
years continuously a notary public. He inherited Republican prin-
ciples and naturally and without debate with himself became a
member of the Republican party when he became a voter. From
that time he acted consistently with that great and progressive
political body, voting for Lincoln in 1864 and voting at every presi-
dential election afterward for the Republican nominee.

In 1882, Mr. Baldwin married Adelaide F. Birdsall, daughter
of Henry H. and Rachel Birdsall, at Afton, Chenango county, New
York, the Rev. Dr. Parke, of Binghamton, New York, performing
their wedding ceremony. Mr. Baldwin was a member and three
times commander of the Grand Army Post, No. 373, of Addison.
He was a communicant of the Presbyterian church. In all his rela-
tions with his fellow citizens he demonstrated that he possessed
such public spirit as makes for the advancement and improvement
of all local conditions. There is no movement proposed for the
public good that did not have his active and liberal support. A
resident of Old Steuben during all his active life, he won a per-
sonal reputation that is the best monument to his patriotism and
the most conspicuous mark of his success. He died suddenly No-
vember 23, 1910.

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David H. Travis, president and general manager of the J. H.
Strait Milling Company, of Canisteo, is by every argument to be
accounted among the representative and influential citizens of that
particularly favored portion of our great commonwealth— Steuben
county. As the head of one of Canisteo 's large industries, he con-
tributes by his public spirited conduct of its affairs to the material
prosperity of the whole community. He is also interested in Steu-
ben county's agricultural welfare, having for twenty years— from
1884 to 1903— stood as one of the most successful and enlightened
of the agriculturists of this district. He is a stanch American in all
that the term implies — ancestry, independent ideals and fine
achievements, and in an uncompromising loyalty to "the land of
the free and the home of the brave. ' ' For nearly one hundred and
fifty years the Travis family has flourished upon American soil and
has figured in some of the most stirring events of national history.

The founder of the Travis family in America was Amasa
Travis, who was born in Dutchess county. New York, September
29, 1770, and died in 1859. He was a farmer and a stanch
Protestant and it was his distinction to be the second settler in the
town of Howard, this county. He was a soldier in the War of
1812, being well on toward middle life at the time of that British-
American conflict. He took as his wife Phoebe Baker, who was like-
wise a native of Dutchess county, where her eyes had first opened
to the light of day, December 25, 1783. Also like her husband she
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. It was her por-
tion to live far beyond the usual length of life, and -when summoned
to the life eternal she was one hundred and four years of age, this
being in the year 1887. More wonderful still she retained her
mental faculties until within a year of her death, at which time they
began to weaken somewhat. During her long life this intelligent
woman witnessed most amazing progress in the section in which her
life was passed and where no one was better known than she.
Among the children born to Amasa and Phoebe Travis was Charles
B., grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, who was
born March 22, 1805, in Sheshequin, Pennsylvania. In 1834 he
married Sylvia Crosby and they came to Steuben county and set-
tled on the creek now known as Travis Creek. The present site of
Canisteo and the county roundabout was then an unbroken wilder-
ness, but about the stream upon whose banks they built their home
and reared their children many other pioneer families came to live,
and the subsequent flourishing settlement bore their name on ac-
count of the leading part they played in the community. Their
son, Amasa Travis, was born on the flrst day of the year 1837, and
died August 2, 1894. This highly respected and well remembered
eentlemajQ was born in the town of Canisteo on Travis creek and
he followed the example of his honored and useful ancestors when
it came to choosing a vocation in life. At the time of the Civil war
he enlisted in the militia, but was never called upon to serve. He
was a loyal adherent of the Republican party and his religious con-

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vietion was that of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was united
in marriage with Sarah J. France, who, like her husband, was a
native of the Empire state, the scenes upon which she first opened
her eyes having been those of Stark, Montgomery county. The
date of her birth was November 6, 1841, and she survives, making
her home at Jasper, New York. Her father, David H. France, was
a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, having preached for
forty-five years, and her mother, whose maiden name was Eliza
Farquharson, could trace her lineage to the land of the thistle.

David H. Travis, named for his maternal grandfather, was
born in Canisteo, February 3, 1863, was reared upon his father's
farm and passed his youth amid wholesome rural surroundings.
After attending the district schools he entered Canisteo Academy
and was graduated from that excellent institution in 1883. After
finishing his education he adopted the vocation of his forebears as
his own, practical experience having made him familiar with scien-
tific agriculture in all of its details, his land, consisting of three
farms, 160 acres being situated in Woodhull, where he resided until
the spring of 1896, when he moved to Greenwood and there pur-
chased two farms containing 356 acres; living there until 1905, he
then moved to Canisteo and has since sold the three farms and in-
vested in the milling business. During this period of time he was
engaged in general farming and dairying and the breeding of thor-
oughbred Holstein cattle, being a member of the Holstein Fresian
Association. The possessor of splendid executive gifts it was but
natural that he should be inclined to an occupation which put these
gifts into full play and in 1903 he purchased stock in that very
important concern, the J. H. Strait Milling Company, and in a
short time he assumed the position of president and general man-
ager. This company was incorporated in 1902 and has a capacity
of about 225 barrels of flour per day. It handles about 100 cars of
grain per year, doing $150,000 worth of business each year. In
short, he has won the success which always crowns well-directed
labor, sound judgment and untiring perseverance, and at the same
time has concerned himself with the affairs of his native county
in a loyal public-spirited way. In his political proclivities Mr.
Travis pays fealty to the principles and policies of the Republican
party, in whose wisdom he reposes much confidence, having served
the town of Greenwood as justice of peace. He is a member of the
First Methodist Episcopal church of Canisteo, as was Mrs. Travis
until her death, March 17, 1910.

Mr. Travis established a happy life companionship by his mar-
riage, which was celebrated July 1, 1884, in the town of Green-
wood, New York, Anna E. Miller, daughter of William and Ruth
Miller, becoming his bride. Though Mrs. William Miller's maiden
name was Ruth Miller, she was no relative of her husband. The
occupation of William Miller was farming and he was a well-
known citizen of his locality. The union of the subject and his
M'ife has been blessed by the birth of the following children, eon-

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eerning whose lives it is possible to give the ensuing data. The
eldest son, Miller Amasa Travis, was born at Woodhull, New York,
July 12, 1885. After graduating from the high school of Green-
wood, he took a four-year course in agriculture in Cornell Univer-
sity, where he earned the degree of Bachelor of the Science of
Agriculture. He has made excellent use of his thorough prepara-
tion and now holds the position of superintendent of the celebrated
Rockroane Dairy at Irvington, New York. He was married in June,
1910, the young woman to become his wife being Miss Margaret
Kieman, of Irvington, New York. The second son, Glenn D.
Travis, was born in Greenwood, New York, August 8, 1887, and
died November 12, 1888. Lynn France Travis was born in Jasper,
New York, April 15, 1889. He is a graduate of the Canisteo high
school and Hornell Business College and is now employed by the J.
H. Strait Milling Company. Andrew David Travis was born at
Woodhull, _ New York, November 20, 1891. He is a graduate of
Canisteo high school and is now preparing for a course in Cornell
University. The youngest child is a daughter, Mary Anna Travis,
born February 5, 1896, in Woodhull, New York, and now in attend-
ance at Canisteo high school. The Travis home is one of the hospit-
able and attractive abodes of the community.

Henry W. Bowes.— In the thriving little city of Bath Henry
W. Bowes is successfully established in the produce and coal busi-
ness, and he is numbered among the representative business men of
his native place, where he has a secure hold upon popular confi-
dence and esteem. He was born at Bath on. the 22nd of De-
cember, 1859, and is the son of Martin and Mary (McMahon)
Bowes, both of whom were born in Ireland, the former on the 15th
of June, 1836, and the latter in the year 1831, their marriage having
been solemnized in Steuben county, in 1856. Martin Bowes was
about twelve years of age at the time of his parents' immigration
to America, and the family home was established in Steuben
county in 1848. Here he was reared to years of maturity and in
1857, about the time of attaining to his legal majority, he pur-
chased a farm in Bath township, where he continued to be identified
with agricultural pursuits until 1859, when he established his home
in the village of Bath, where he engaged in business in the trans-
portation of passengers and freight, building wp a successful dray-
age and omnibus line. In 1870 he turned his attention to the retail
coal business and he also became a successful dealer in grain and
other produce. He is now virtually retired from active business
and is enjoying the just rewards of former years of earnest toil
and endeavor. He is held in high esteem in the village that has
so long represented his home and he served six years as a member
of the board of trustees of the village of Bath. He is a stanch
Democrat in his political proclivities and both he and his wife are
zealous communicants of the Catholic church. Of their five chil-
dren Henry W., of this review, is the eldest; Thomas F., is living

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in Boston, Massachusetts ; Ambrose is engaged in business at Bath ;
Mary is the wife of Warren W. Faulkner, of Bath ; and Katherine
remains at the parental home.

Henry W. Bowes, whose name initiates this article, was reared
to maturity in his native village of Bath, which has been his home
during the intervening years, and here he has found ample scope for
the utilization of his energies and ability along normal lines of
pi'oduetive enterprise, through association with which he has gained
prestige as one of the substantial business men of his native county.
He gained his early educational discipline in the public schools and
supplemented this by a course in Buffalo and at Haverling Acad-
emy, in Bath, an institution which figures as the alma mater of
many of the representative citizens of Steuben county. He early
became associated with his father's business affairs and for the
past ten years he has been successfully established in business on
his own responsibility, as a dealer in coal and farm produce. His
political support is given to the Democratic party and he shows a
lively interest in all that touches the welfare of his home town.
He was reared in the faith of the Catholic church, in which he is
a communicant, and as a citizen he is essentially loyal and public-
spirited, the while he has not been denied the respect and esteem of
the people of the community which has ever been his home.

In 1901 Mr. Bowes was married to Clara G., daughter of
David M. and Sarah (Gaston) McMaster, of Bath. They have had
three children. Sarah A., and David M., living, and Virginia, de-
ceased. He served his native village four years as trustee, and one
year as president. For twelve years he was a member of the Board
of Health acting as its president most of that time. At present he
is serving his third term as a member of the Board of Education.
He was one of the founders of the prosperous Bath Savings and
Loan Association, and for a long time its treasurer. He has been
an active fireman thirty-five years, during which time he has served
in nearly every official capacity in the department. He is a mem-
ber of the Board of Trade, treasurer of the Steuben Club, and a
charter member of Elmira Council, Knights of Columbus. In 1910
he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Hudson-Fulton
Celebration by Mayor McClellan, of New York City.

William G. Dean.— The Dean family of Steuben county, and
for that matter very largely throughout central and western New
York, claim descent from Walter Deane, who with his brother John
came from South Chard, near Taunton, Somersetshire, England,
and settled at Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1638. Without tracing
the intermediate generations it is sufficient for the purposes of this
article to say that William Dean and Hannah, his wife, in 1762,
were occupying four hundred and seventy-seven acres of the ' ' Phil-
lipse Patent" near Carmel in Dutchess county. New York, that tract
having been opened up to settlers shortly before. Among his children
was John, who had been born in Connecticut in 1740, became a sol-

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dier in the French and Indian war and was one of the army with
Wolfe at Quebec. He also served in the Continental army in the
War of the Eevolution. He came with his son, Dr. William N., to the
town of Pulteney, in Steuben county, in 1815, having previously
made a tour of inspection by horseback, and he died there at a ven-
erable age. He was three times married, though only one wife, Mary
Niles, bore him children. They were among the early settlers of the
town. Dr. William N. Dean was born at Carmel, New York, in
1795, married to Polly Terry in 1815 at Red Mills, in Dutchess
county, and spent his life from young manhood on in the town of
Pulteney. He was a man of strong mind and purpose, keen, active,
and as a physician took high rank in his profession. He left five
children, the youngest of whom, George R., was born in 1832. He
became interested in the reports of the discovery of gold in Cali-
fornia and shortly before reaching his legal majority joined the
hegira of gold-seekers to California, making the long trip by way
of the Isthmus of Panama. He remained in California and Nevada
for thirteen years, engaged in mining or other business, holding
ofiSee, fighting Indians, and playing his full part in maintaining
law and order in the wild life of the frontier. He returned to
Pulteney in 1866 and was married to Jennie M., daughter of Harry
and Theresa (Weed) Godfrey in 1867. The Godfrey family also
were early settlers in the town, having settled there about the same
time that Dr. Dean came. Their former home was South East in
Putnam county, New York. Harry Godfrey was supervisor of the
town for a number of terms, justice of the peace and a successful
farmer, lawyer and financier. His keen insight and wisdom in
choosing investments enabled him to amass a fortune that was in
those early days considered large. Soon after the marriage of his
daughter Jennie M. to George R. Dean he left the farm to them
and removed to Prattsburgh, where he died in 1887. To George R.
Dean and wife were born five children, as follows: William G.,
March 1, 1868 ; Minnie G., a graduate of Elmira College and now
of the Department of Education at Albany, New York, July 11,
1870; Alice, now Mrs. Dr. William W. Baehman, of Prattsburgh,
July 2, 1872 ; Stella, still living at home with her mother, October
13, 1875 ; and Harry G., who owns and occupies the old farm, June
25, 1878. George R. Dean spent most of his life after his return
from the west in farming. In 1887 he removed to Prattsburgh,
where he lived till his death in 1904. Mrs. Dean still lives at
Prattsburgh.

The subject of this sketch lived at home until fourteen years of
age, when he came to Prattsburgh as a student at Franklin Acad-
emy, from which institution he graduated in the classical course in
1887. Before leaving school he had been called upon by his grand-
father, Harry Godfrey, to assist him in the management of his
affairs and at his death the settlement was left largely in his hands.
This work, which occupied his mind for a number of years, com-

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pelled him to abandon his plans for college and to be content with
the education already obtained.

In 1904 he, with Dr. Robert J. Scott and others, organized the
Prattsburgh State Bank and bought from W. Frank McLean the
banking business which had been conducted by him as a private
bank. The bank was organized with a capital of $25,000 and its
record has been one of uninterrupted success and progress. It has
paid dividends almost from its organization and has amassed a sur-
plus now nearly as large as its capital. Mr. Dean and Dr. Scott ■
for over six years had equal voice in its management, the former
holding the ofSce of president, the latter that of cashier. Recently
Dr. Scott retired from active participation in the affairs of the
bank and jNIr. Dean increased his holdings of stock in the bank and
correspondingly his voice in its management. It is worthy of note
that since the organization of the bank its losses have been less
than one per cent per annum of the aggregate amount of loans.
Mr. Dean has other real estate interests to which he devotes some
time. He was for twenty years a member of the Board of Educa-
tion of Franklin Academy and its president for a number of years.
He is a member and one of the trustees of the Presbyterian church,
and holds membership in the Masonic and Oddfellow bodies.

In 1894 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dean to Miss
Grace Conine, of Bath, this county. She was the daughter of
Lorenzo and Abigail Townsend Conine, the former a well-known
business man and representative citizen of Bath. The death of Mrs.
Dean occurred September 13, 1910, and, beloved by all who knew
her, it may well be said of her in the words of the poet,

"To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die."

Her parents removed from Pittsburgh, Green county, to Bath,
about fifty years ago, and there she was born, May 9, 1871. Her
education was obtained in Haverling Academy, from which institu-
tion she was graduated with the class of 1889. For a short time
previous to her marriage she was a clerk in the village postoffice
under the administration of her brother, Gamaliel T. Conine, and
in this capacity won many friends by her prompt and efficient serv-
ice and her obliging and cheerful manner. An appreciation of the
life and character of this admirable lady was given in a local pub-
lication at the time of her demise and from this extracts are taken,
with some slight paraphrase.

After her marriage on August 8, 1894, Mrs. Dean gave her-
self to the establishing of a home of culture and refinement. Soon,
however, tubercular trouble came to cast its shadow over her life
and she was obliged to spend some time in the Adirondacks, where
she did in large measure regain her strength, until two years ago,
when the trouble was renewed, gradually increasing in intensity
until the close. At the early age of nine years she united in mem-

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bership with the Methodist church, and transferred her fellowship
to the Presbyterian church when she came here to live. As all so
well know, she was most devoted to her home and could not think
of remaining long away from it, although absence might mean the
regaining of her powers; other places and other scenes could not
compensate for the home joys. Mrs. Dean loved the best books and
the great authors became her personal friends. She delighted her-
self not with the ephemeral books of the day, but with the tried
-and true works of past years. Emerson, Scott, Cooper, Dickens,
Hugo, Eliot, and Whittier were her delight, as well as the better
class of writers of our own time. Reading was the pleasure of her
last years when sickness had compelled her to withdraw from social
life and duties in which formerly she had found pleasure.

Perhaps that which touched all hearts most deeply was the
silent and heroic struggle with disease, to which a weaker will
would have succumbed long before. In our intercourse with people
we occasionally meet with those who seem to bring out the hest in
our nature; we are loathe to speak the unworthy thought in their
presence, and there was this about Mrs. Dean's personality; she had
the faculty of drawing out the best in the lives of those who came
in toiich with her own. Such personalities are rare and when one
passes out we truly mourn the loss, yet the influence, the sweet
perfume of the life still remains.

Besides her husband, Mrs. Dean was survived by four brothers,
G. LaValle, Frank B., David E., and Clinton F., and also by a sis-
ter, Mrs. W. A. Sinclair, all of Bath.

Claeenoe H. -Fay.— a native son of Steuben county, who has
gained success and prestige as a member of the bar of New York
City, is Clarence H. Fay. He was born in Steuben county, on the
4th of August, 1877, and is a son of Henry C. and Mary Ostrander,
both of whom were likewise born and reared in Steuben county,
where the respective families were founded many years ago. His
paternal grandfather, Lewis Pay, was numbered among the pio-
neers of Steuben county, where he was identified with the operation
of a stage line in the early days and where he also engaged in the
express business. He was one of the first conductors on the Erie
Railroad and was well known throughout the section of the state
which represented is home for so many years. His maternal grand-
father, John Ostrander, likewise was numbered among the pioneers
of Steuben county.

Clarence H. Fay, the only son in a family of three children,
was reared to adult age in Steuben county and completed the cur-
riculum of the public schools, including the high school at Bath.
He thereafter became a student in Cornell University, at Ithaca,
this state, from which he was graduated as a member of the class
of 1901 and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts.
In 1903 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the New
York Law School. In the same year he was admitted to the bar

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of New York city and here he has since been engaged in the active
practice of his profession. He manifests his continued interest in
his native county by his membership in the Steuben Comity Society
of New York city and in politics he gives his allegiance to the
Republican party.

James E. Jones.— As president of the Steuben County Society
of New York City Colonel James E. Jones keeps in close touch with
the affairs of Steuben county, where he was born and reared and
where much of his life has been passed. Although Colonel Jones
has reached the venerable age of eighty-one years (in 1911) he is
still most active and retains in much of their pristine vigor the
splendid mental and physical powers of his youth. His business
offices in New York city are maintained at No. 143 Wadsworth
avenue.

Colonel James E. Jones was born at Cameron, Steuben county,
New York, on the 27th of July, 1829, and is a son of James E.
and Sally (Orcutt) Jones, both of whom are now deceased, the
former having been born on Duncans Island, Pennsylvania, and
the latter at Chemung, Chemung county. New York. Mr. and Mvs.
Jones became the parents of five children and of the number two
are now living, the Colonel having been the last in order of birth.
After due preliminary training in the public schools of Steuben
county. Colonel Jones attended and was graduated in the Addison
Select School, conducted by the renowned Professor Loekwood, as
a member of the class of 1849. In 1852 he was elected town clerk
of Cameron and in the following year was made under sheriff, by
G. T. narrower, and resided at Bath, the judicial center of the
county, for two years. In 1857 Colonel Jones decided to seek his
fortunes in the west and accordingly journeyed to Fort Scott, Kan-
sas, where he edited and published the Fort Seott Democrat, a free
state journal. Because of his opposition to the "Jan Hawkin"
faction he was ordered by old John Brown to leave the territory.
We quote his own words in this connection : "I did not obey him
and when I subsequently heard that he was justly executed at
Charleston, Virginia, I shed no tears." He continued to reside
in Kansas until 1861.

At the time when the dark cloud of Civil war obscured the
national horizon Colonel Jones tendered his services in defense of
the cause of the Union. He entered the army on the 15th of April,
1861, as a private in the Frontier Guards of Kansas, and soon after
being mustered into service he was appointed, by President Lincoln,
a captain and assistant quartermaster and assigned to the Army of
the Potomac. He continued as a valiant and faithful soldier until
the close of the war, being three times brevetted for gallant and
meritorious service upon the recommendation of General Grant.
He participated in many important conflicts marking the progress
of the war and after General Lee's surrender he was ordered to
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covered the entire state with the exception of New York city. He
continued in the volunteer service until May, 1866, at which
time he was honorably mustered out. In 1870 he purchased a
large tract of land in Addison, which he improved, erecting build-
ings and cultivating this extensive farm. At this time he also was
a member of the firm of Barber, Palmer and Jones, of Utica, manu-
facturers of statistical instruments.

Fraternally, Colonel Jones is affiliated with many important
organizations of representative character. He was made a master
ilason in 1851 and a Royal Arch Mason, at Addison, in 1869. In
1852 he joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Sons
of Temperance. He has ever retained a deep and sincere interest
in his old comrades in arms and signified the same by membership
in Angle Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Addison, of which
he is a charter member. In 1872 he was appointed captain of the
Post of New York by Governor Hoffman, and in 1885 was appointed
by President Cleveland deputy collector of the port of New York
and held the position for six years. Colonel Jones was appointed
port warden by Governor Hill and reappointed by Governor
Flower, subsequently being made director of the New York
Aquarium, which position he has held for six years. At the present
time he is a member of the Democratic Club of New York city,
where he has resided since 1885. He was particularly active in
the organizing of the Steuben County Society of New York City,
and of the same has been president. In politics he is aligned as a
stalwart in the ranks of the Democratic party and he has been a
most potent influence in promoting all measures advanced for the
general welfare.

In the year 1868 Colonel Jones was united in marriage to Miss
Mary Steele, who was a granddaughter of Judge Steele, an eminent
and distinguished citizen of the old town of Painted Post. She was
born and reared at Elkland, Pennsylvania, and has now reached
the age of sixty years. Mrs. Jones is a woman of rare culture and
refinement and she and her husband are devout members of the
Episcopal church.

Henet C. Dudley.— The name of Dudley is one which has
figured prominently and admirably in the history of the United
States and in the preceding Colonial period. The first Dudley came
to the shores of New England but a decade later than the May-
flower, and in scarcely less than three centuries the family has
given to the nation scores of distinguished men— soldiers, patriots,
and statesmen, and men whose honor and integrity has withstood
every test. Down through the generations there came in uninter-
rupted course the stanch Puritan principles of these illustrious
forbears to Henry Clay Dudley, lately deceased, who met the best of
them as a peer in the highest capacity granted to mankind— that of
a good man and a public-spirited citizen.

Mr. Dudley was born at Bath, New York, December 22, 1837,

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and he lived to pass by a few years the psalmist's allotment, his
demise occurring May 8, 1910. As said before, the Dudley family
is one of the oldest in America and the founder of the family on
these shores was Thomas Dudley, the ship "Arbella," which had
carried him and his family across the Atlantic, arriving in 1630 on
the coast of Massachusetts. He was the son of Roger Dudley, cap-
tain of Queen Elizabeth 's army and a Pu-ritan, and he was destined
to become a leader in the new world. With fifteen hundred others
he settled at Salem, and did a valuable part in the founding of
Boston and of Harvard College. He was several times governor
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, alternating with John Winthrop,
and he died after twenty-two years of usefulness at Roxbury, Mas-
sachusetts, July 31, 1653. It is probable that Thomas Dudley's
wife died before the exodus from England; at any rate, her name
and origin are not known. Glancing further, it is found that the
next in line with the subject was the Rev. Samuel Dudley, eldest
son of the Governor, He was born in England, possibly at
Northampton, his father's birthplace, and he was thrice married
and became the father of eighteen children. His first wife, to
whom he was united two years after coming to America, was Mary,
daughter of Governor John "Winthrop. The eleventh child,
Stephen, the offspring of his third marriage, was the ancestor of
him whose name stands at the head of this review. Like his father,
he was a citizen of Exeter, New Hampshire, and he thrived, becom-
ing a well-to-do yeoman and the father of eleven children. The
third of the children born to him was Lieutenant James Dudley,
his birthdate being 1690, and that of his death 1746. A cooper by
trade, he was also one of the large landowners of New England,
much of his property being in the vicinity of the present town of
Raymond, New Hampshire. He was a daring soldier and scout,
being present at the siege of Louisburg, and he served with dis-
tinction as an officer in the third Inter-Colonial war with France
in 1744-47. The third of Lieutenant James Dudley's eight children
was Lieutenant Samuel Dudley, born in 1720, and died in 1797.
Like his father, he was a valiant soldier and side by side with him
he displayed his valor in the war above-mentioned, his office at that
time being that of a sergeant. At the siege of Louisburg he cap-
tured a French captain in the woods. There were several military
Dudleys in that day, one of Samuel's vincles being a captain and
another a major. Samuel Dudley, soldier, answered to numerous
other callings, being a Quaker preacher, a farmer and a lumber-
man, and the scene of these diversified labors was Raymond, New
Hampshire. Of the seven sons born to his three marriages two died
from accident, four were preachers who left illustrious descendants,
and one, Jeremiah— in line with the subject— was a Revolutionary
soldier.

Jeremiah Dudley, fourth son of Lieutenant Samuel Dudley,
was born in Raymond, New Hampshire, in 1753, and had the dis-
tinction of serving through the war of the Revolvition under a num-

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ber of famous generals— under the great Washington himself, un-
der Generals Gates and Sullivan, and at one time Benedict Arnold
was his commander. He was one of nineteen Dudleys who were
Revolutionary soldiers. In later life Jeremiah became a ship-
builder and located in Bangor, Maine, whence .he removed in
sleighs with his large family to Bath, New York, in 1814. He pur-
chased fifteen Imndred acres of land south of Bath village, now
known as Dudley settlement, and thus in him we see the founder
of the family in the Empire slate. He was a Republican and a
Avell-informed citizen, and while in Maine held several minor
offices. His cousin, Nathaniel Dudley, wrote of him in 1817:
"He obtained a better education than his brothers, though it was
not extraordinary. He was a man of strong mind, of very indus-
trious and prudent habits while living in Maine and had the faculty
to keep, as well as to get, property." His life was bounded by the
years 1752 and 1838, and through him ten good citizens were given
to the state. Moses Dudley, eighth child of the foregoing, was born
at East Pittston, ilaine, July 13, 1797. He was a pious man and a
citizen who enjoyed the popular esteem and he prospered as a
farmer. He received a common-school education, but his learning
was not measured by the time he had spent behind a desk in the
school room. Politically he gave his support to the Republican
party. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Atwood, was born
October 14, 1802, at Bangor, Maine. Her mother was a Longfellow
and preceded by two generations that noted member of the family,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Mary A. Dudley died February
4, 1898, a woman of very advanced years and generally beloved in
the community. She and her husband were the parents of ten
sons and daughters.

Henry Clay Dudley was the eighth of the children of Moses and
Mary A. Dudley, and his birth occurred upon the ancestral home-
stead in Bath township, Steuben county. In this brief review it
must be apparent that never American citizen had ancestry more
worthy of pride and self-satisfaction. He was, however, one of the
most modest and simple of men, content to do his duty in that state
to which he had been called ; an Abolitionist in his convictions at the
time of the nation's disruption; a Republican in politics, though
not a rabid one, ever placing the good of the whole social body
above mere partisanship ; an advocate of Prohibition in his latter
days. He was not a church member, but he gave his right hand to
all good causes and any measure likely to result in the general wel-
fare was sure of his, support.

Mr. Dudley was educated in the public schools and early elected
to devote his energies to farming, his property consisting of four
hundred acres located in Dudley settlement and possessing com-
modious buildings, among them an attractive home of renowned
hospitality.

On the 2nd of February, 1869, occurred the marriage of Mr.
Dudley to Rhuetta Z. Havens, daughter of Elijah and Susan

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Havens, of Phelps, New York, their union being celebrated at that
place. Through her mother Mrs. Dudley is a descendant of the
same stock which produced the eminent American clergyman, Ed-
ward Everett Hale. Rev. Elijah Havens was a Wesleyan Methodist
minister and was burned to death at Bath when Mrs. Dudley was
but eight years of age. This marriage was blessed by the birth of
six sons and two daughters, of whom the ensuing mention is given.

The eldest son, Plummer A., was born at Bath, October 21,
1869, and died March 17, 1895. Carrie was born July 8, 1871, and
at Bath, October 18, 1893, became the wife of George Z. Harder, a
farmer. They have one son, Clay. Egbert H. was born August 31,
1873, and was united in marriage to Edith Morrow, November 9,
1898. He received a high school and collegiate education and is
successfully engaged as a produce merchant and lumberman at
Bath. He and his wife are the parents of five children. Susan P.,
born January 24, 1879, on February 8, 1899, married Fred L.
Robinson, a machinist, and died January 4, 1903, leaving one son,
Byrd. George H., born December 7, 1882, received his preliminary
education in the high school and is a graduate of Hamilton College.
He married Arthella Philo at Washington Mills, New York, June
2, 1908, and has one daughter, Muriel. He is a produce dealer by
occupation. Frank E. was born March 13, 1884; was educated in
the Bath high school and at Oberlin (Ohio) College, being a grad-
uate of the latter institution. He was married in Buffalo, New
York, December 8, 1910, Eva Boyle becoming his wife, and he is
now occupied as a restaurant keeper at Bath. Clay, born February
5, 1886, received a high school and part college education and was
married August 20, 1908, to Katherine Parkhurst, their union being
celebrated in Bath. He is a member of the firm of E. H. Dudley &
Company, produce dealers. He and his wife have two children—
a son, Egbert P., and a daughter, Dorothy. The youngest member
of the family, Floyd, was born July 9, 1890, received a good public
school education, and married at Bath, November 18, 1909, Alice
Orcutt, they being the parents of a daughter, Edith. Floyd Dudley
is engaged in farming. Bath is the birthplace of all the children.

The widow of Henry Clay Dudley is a woman who enjoys the
respect of the whole community. Of Mr. Dudley it has been said
by one who knew him well, "He was provident; a careful farmer;
industrious; of good habits; a Puritan in principle; an accom-
modating neighbor; a good man."

Could simpler, sincerer, less bombastic, more desirable tribute
be paid ?

Samuel B. Balcom.— He whose name initiates this sketch is
one of the substantial and progressive business men contributed
to the national metropolis by Steuben county, and for nearly a
quarter of a century he has been established as a wholesale dealer
in butter, eggs and cheese at 151 Read street, New York city. He
has built up a large and appreciative trade within this long interval

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and his definite success has been well justified by his fair and honor-
able methods. Mr. Balcom was born at Curtis, Steuben county, on
the 15th of September, 1865, and is a son of Benjamin and Melvina
E. (Dunkles) Balcom, the former of whom was bom May 14, 1830,
a son of Benjamin F. Balcom, who took up his residence in Steu-
ben county about 1829, becoming one of the successful farmers of
that section of the state. Mrs. Melvina E. Balcom was born and
reared in Steuben county, where her parents settled in the pioneer
days. Benjamin Balcom still resides in the village of Curtis and is
one of its venerable and highly honored citizens, being an octo-
genarian at the time of this writing. He has witnessed virtually
the entire development and upbuilding of that favored section and
in a reminiscent way recalls many interesting incidents in connec-
tion with the pioneer days in that county, where he made his advent
as a lumberman and farmer, and which he has always pursued suc-
cessfully. His cherished and devoted wife was summoned to the
life eternal in 1900, at the age of sixty-three years. They became
the parents of three children, all of whom are living — Uri, who
resides at Curtis; Eliza, who is the wife of Guy E. Calkins, of
Painted Post, Steuben county; and Samuel B., of this sketch, who
is the eldest of the three children.

Samuel B. Balcom was reared to the sturdy discipline of the
farm and early commenced to contribute his quota to the various
departments of its work. In the meantime he availed himself of
the advantages of the district schools, which he attended princi-
pally during the winter seasons and in which he laid the founda-
tions for the broad and practical knowledge which he has since
gained in the school of experience. Upon attaining to his legal
majority Mr. Balcom severed his active allegiance with the great
basic industry under whose influences he had been reared and re-
moved to New York city, determined to gain for himself as great
success as he could achieve under metropolitan conditions. He thus
took up his residence in New York city in 1886 and in 1888 he
began his independent operations as a wholesale dealer in butter,
eggs and cheese, with which line of enterprise he has since been
actively identified, with headquarters from the beginning at his
present favored location on Read street. As may be naturally
inferred, he began operations on a modest scale, but by energy and
good management, fortified by his thorough Imowledge of the hand-
ling of farm products, he has built up an extensive and substantial
business, in connection with which he gives employment to a large
corps of men.

Mr. Balcom has been one of the most appreciative and en-
thusiastic members of the Steuben County Society of New York city
and had the distinction of serving as its president in 1908. He
was one of the organizers of the society and has been zealous in
perfecting and cementing its social ties. He has also completed the
circle of York Rite Masonry and is identified with the Ancient
Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the Benevolent

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& Protective Order of Elks. He is a stanch Democrat in his politi-
cal proclivities and is a member of the Machinery Club of New
York city.

On the 26th of Octobef , 1887, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Balcom to Miss Sarah M. Haynes, who was likewise born and
reared in Steuben county, and who is a daughter of David R.
Haynes, one of the representative farmers of that county. Mr. and
Mrs. Balcom have two daughters, Louise S. and Helen J.

Glenn Hammond Cuetiss, of aerial navigation fame, was born
at Hammondsport, Steuben county, New York, and part of his
name was given him in honor of that village. His father was Frank
R. Curtiss, who settled at Hammondsport and was a harness maker
there till his death, which occurred in 1880, when he was twenty-
eight years old. Leah Andrews became the wife of Frank R.
Curtiss and the mother of Glenn H. and Rutha Curtiss. She is
living at Buffalo, New York. Miss Rutha Curtiss, who has been
deaf since her childhood, is a teacher at the Deaf Institute at
Rochester, New York.

After leaving school Glenn H. Curtiss studied photography
two years, then engaged in the bicycle business, eventually taking
part in national and international tournaments and becoming one
of the most noted wheelmen of his time. From the bicycle business,
to the motorcycle business was but a natural step, following the
development of the bicycle and its evolution to the motor vehicle
stage. While winning fame throughout the wide world he still
owns his motorcycle enterprise at Hammondsport and it is kept in
profitable operation. During the last few years he has devoted
himself to invention and adventure in aerial navigation and has
become one of the men foremost in this field. The story of his
work and of his triumphs would fill a volume. Since he made his
first flight in 1908, on the old Stony Brook farm, his achievements
have filled large space in the newspaper press of the whole civil-
ized world. On March 7, 1898, Mr. Curtiss married Miss Lina
Neff, born at Prattsburg, Steuben county, September 14, 1879,
a daughter of Guy L. Neff. Mr. Neff came of an old pioneer family.
He was born October 13, 1850, prospered as a lumberman and died
April 27, 1903. His wife was Jennie Potter, daughter of Seneca
and Marion (Chase) Potter, of Yates county, New York. Mrs.
Curtiss' mother is living, aged about fifty-three years; her grand-
father Potter is also living, aged about eighty-nine. Mrs. Curtiss
was the only child of her parents. She is a member of the Epis-
copal church.

Hammondsport and Steuben county are proud of Mr. Curtiss
and he shows his loyalty to Old Steuben and his love for his birth-
place and boyhood home by continuing to live there in these days
of his great prosperity, making the little town among the hills and
at the foot of the lake the scene of operations which must add lustre
to its already world-wide fame gained through the juice of its
grapes, the product of its wine presses.

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Geoege Ray Hall.— Through ambition, energy and persever-
ance George Ray Hall, of Hamraondsport, has won a high place for
himself among the substantial citizens of Steuben county, New
York. In addition to his duties as a wine manufacturer he is
manager and financial secretary for Glenn H. Curtiss, the eminent
exploiter of the aeroplane and promoter of aerial navigation.

Mr. Hall is a native son of this county, his birth having oe-
eured at Bath on the 13th of February, 1871. His parents, Alex-
ander and Eliza (Waterous) Hall, were likewise born in New
York, but both are now deceased. The father was identified with
agricultural pursuits during the major portion of his active busi-
ness career, and was a son of Reuben and Nancy (Gilmore) Hall,
early settlers of Hammondsport and the Lake Keuka region, Mr.
Hall traces his family history on his father's side through Lyman
Hall, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and on his mother 's
side through Benjamin Waterous, through the Revolution and back
to the early history of this country. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hall
became the parents of ten children, seven of whom are now living
and concerning whom the following brief data are here recorded:
Emmet resides at Cameron Mills, Steuben county ; Ida is the widow
of Franklin G. Churchill, and she lives at Lansing, Michigan; Eva
is the wife of Moses Davison, of Bath, New York ; Elmer maintains
his home at Batavia, Genesee county, this state ; Lettie is now Mrs.
Charles C. Cook, of Lansing, Michigan; William is a citizen of
Hornell, this county; and George Ray ,^ the youngest member of this
family, is the immediate subject of th"is review.

After completing the curriculum of the public schools of his
native place George Ray Hall continued his studies for two years
at Holland, Michigan, residing with his sister, Mrs, F. G.
Churchill, and at the expiration of this time he returned to El-
mira, New York, and entered the Elmira Business College, from
which he was graduated in June, 1888. In January, 1889, he
became bookkeeper for the Hammondsport Wine Company, at
Hammondsport. In 1892 he accepted a position with the George W.
Hallock Bank, Bath, but one year later he returned to the Ham-
mondsport Wine Company for one year ; then he went to Warsaw,
Wyoming county, this state, where he was identified with the Blue
Stone industry for about six years, when he again returned to
Hammondsport and founded the Crescent Wine Company, of
which he has since been secretary, treasurer and general manager.
This company was started in 1902 and incorporated under the laws
of the state of New York in 1905. It caterers to a large wholesale
and retail trade and its general prosperity is constantly on the
increase.

In May, 1909, Mr. Hall was appointed manager and financial
secretary for Glenn H. Curtiss, the widely renowned aeroplane
inventor and operator, whose success in his particular field of
endeavor has aroused the admiration and wonder of nations.

In his religious faith Mr. Hall is a devout communicant of the

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Protestant Episcopal church, holding membership in St. James'
parish at Hammondsport, in which he is a vestryman. He is an
active and zealous factor in church work and liberal contributor
to all worthy philanthropical projects. Holding definite views on
all political subjects and exerting considerable influence in local
affairs, Mr. Hall is not in the ordinary sense an active politician and
has resolutely declined all proffered public offices. In politics he is
not, strictly speaking, a party man. He exercises his franchise in
favor of the party most likely to give clean government with the
changing civic conditions, and no measure or enterprise advanced
for the general welfare fails of a most hearty and sincere support
from him. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the time-honored
Masonic order and he is also a valued and appreciative member of
the Knights of Pythias.

In the year 1896 Mr. Hall was united in marriage to Miss
Anna Belle Lewis, who was born at Prattsburg, Steuben county, on
the 19th of March, 1872. She is the daughter of Jeremiah and
Marium (Anderson) Lewis, the latter of whom is a daughter of
John and Jane (Wyckoff) Anderson. John Anderson was a son of
John and Patience (Andrews) Anderson, who were early settlers
in Steuben county. Jeremiah Lewis, who died at the age of sixty-
nine, was a son of Graudus and Cornelia (Swarts) Lewis, de-
scendants of the earliest settlers of Prattsburg, Steuben county.
The mother of Mrs. Hall is a gracious old lady of seventy-two years
of age. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have one child, Wilber Lewis Hall,
whose birth occurred on the 5th day of July, 1900.

William Heney Chamberlain, of Bath township, Steuben
county, New York, is one of the prominent citizens of his county
and belongs to a family long resident here. He was born August
15, 1866, on the homestead where he now lives, a son of Jesse
Mark Chamberlain and wife, Erville, nee Ingham.

Jesse Mark Chamberlain, also a native of the Chamberlain
homestead, was born September 27, 1824. His parents were
Joseph Chamberlain, born at Wardsboro, Vermont, July 28, 1790,
and Esther, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary (Josselyn) Wheeler.
It was in 1810 that the Chamberlains came to New York and set-
tled near Kanona, in Steuben county, on the land which is still
retained by the family, being owned and occupied by William
Henry. Joseph Chamberlain was by trade a clothier, but after
coming to New York was interested in farming and milling. He
dug a mill race and built the first mill at Kanonaville, which he
later sold to a man by the name of Otis. On April 26, 1833, he
accidently fell from a high beam in his barn and sustained injuries
from the effects of which he died June 17, 1834.

Joseph Chamberlain's father, also named Joseph, was bom at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, December 27, 1762. He married
Lucy, daughter of Jesse and Mary (Cheney) Whitney, of Milford,
Massachusetts, and removed to a farm in Vermont in 1782, which

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had been given him as bounty for services in the Continental
army. His father was Wilson Chamberlain, who married Eliza-
beth, daughter of Joseph and Joanna (Call) Austin, of Charles-
town. Wilson was born September 24, 1724, and resided at the old
home in that town until the spring of 1775. At the time of the
burning of Charleston and the battle of Bunker Hill his family
fled with other women and children before the invading enemy.
Wilson was also a soldier of the Revolution and received partial
compensation from the commonwealth for the loss of his house and
property, destroyed June 17, 1775. He was a son of John and
Thankful (Wilson) Chamberlain, of Charlestown.

The earliest ancestor of the family that settled in this country
was probably Henry Chamberlain, who came from Bingham, county
Norfolk, England, in the ship Diligent, and settled at Hull, Massa-
chusetts, in 1638. He brought with him his wife, mother and two
sons, Henry and William, and was admitted freeman March 13,
1639.

Ervilla (Ingham) Chamberlain is a daughter of Isaac and
Mary (Lewis) Ingham. She was married to Jesse Mark Cham-
berlain October 25, 1860, and they are the parents of two sons and
a daughter, namely: Joseph Redington, William Henry and Mrs.
Lucy C. Baker, of Springfield, Massachusetts. Joseph R. married
Hope Sommerell and resides at Raleigh, North Carolina. Their
children are Mary Mitchell, Jesse Mark and Gratia.

WiUiam Henry Chamberlain graduated at high school in 1885
and at Cornell University in 1889, after which he went to North
Carolina, where he spent four years employed as secretary to John
T. Patrick, commissioner of agriculture. Returning to Kanona in
1893, he settled on the old home place, where he has since resided.
For years he has been interested in fine stock, breeding and raising
horses, cattle and sheep, making a specialty of Morgan horses and
Jersey cattle. For three years he was secretary of the New York
State Breeders' Association, and he served as vice-president of the
Steuben County Agricultural Society. Also he was elected and
served as one of the expert judges of cattle for the state conven-
tion. And in addition to his interests in his home county he owns
a large amount of property in the southern states.

For years Mr. Chamberlain has been prominent in Republican
polities. In 1905 and again in 1907 he was elected to the General
Assembly of the state, the last time receiving a majority of over
one thousand seven hundred votes, and in the legislature he figured
prominently, serving in such responsible positions as chairman of
the committee on the Soldiers' Home, member of the taxation, pub-
lic lands and forestry committees, and member of the state forest
commission, also the committee on state fishing, game, etc. In addi-
tion to his Greek fraternity, Kappa Alpha, be belongs to the
Grangers and to the Masonic order at Bath.

On October 27, 1898, Mr. Chamberla,in married Miss Carrie
Belle Stiekney, who bore him three children: William Henry,

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born January 3, 1901; Julius John, May '31, 1903; and Melina
Erville, May 20, 1904. William Henry died March 5, 1903. Mrs.
Chamberlain was born March 10, 1873, a daughter of Julius and
Katie (AuUs) Stiekney, natives of Steuben county, and she died
October 1, 1907. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and in every respect a most estimable woman, loved by all
who knew her.

Daniel Shoemaker.— This well-known, highly respected and
venerable farmer of Steuben county is a native son of the Emerald
Isle, which has given to America some of her most progressive
stock. His eyes first opened to the light of day in county Limerick,
Ireland, the date of his nativity being April 26, 1826. His father,
Philip Shoemaker, was born in 1798, at the time of the Irish
rebellion, and farmed in Ireland^ on land, which it is extremely
interesting to note, was granted by William of Orange, the estate
having been in the subject's family during successive generations.
The father came to "the new land of promise"— America— in 1852,
some few years after the arrival on these shores of the son whose
name initiates this review, and with his family he located on land
in Steuben county where his son Daniel had previously settled. His
wife, Mary Kinney, born in 1798, died in 1889, when more than
ninety years of age. Of these seven children of this worthy couple
only two are living — Daniel and his brother Amos, the latter a
citizen of Rochester, New York. One of his brothers was coach-
man for Archdeacon Warburfon, of the church of England.

Daniel Shoemaker was the first of the family to hear the call
of opportunity from the shores of the new world, and after arriving
in the United States he first located in Seneca county. New York,
subsequently removing to Keuka, Steuben county, where he was
living when he sent for his parents and others of his family. From
that place he came to Bath, where he was employed by the late
Judge Rumsey, his term of service for that gentleman lasting until
1867, and being of fifteen years' duration. He then bought a farm
near Kanona, to which he made additions until he owned four
hundred and fifty acres, which he eventually deeded to his chil-
dren. He is a Republican and was formerly active and influential
in local political movements. During the administration of Presi-
dent Hayes he was postmaster at Kanona, and then relinquished
the office in favor of his son Daniel. In the matter of religious
conviction he is affiliated with the Episcopal church.

Mr. Shoemaker laid the foundation of a happy married life,
when Elizabeth Kelley, a young woman of the North of Ireland,
became his wife. She was a daughter of Owen Kelley, and was the-
scion of a family very old and of high honor in Ireland. The demise
of this worthy woman and faithful wife occurred in 1885, her years
at the time numbering fifty-eight. She bore to her husband a num-
ber of children, concerning whom it is possible to include the fol-
lowing facts of biography. Clara married F. Evans and through

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her the subject has two grandchildren and three great-grandchil-
dren. George, of Kanona, married Cora Shultz, and through him
Sir. Shoemaker has three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Kate is the wife of WiUiam Goodman, a shoemaker of Kanona.
Daniel, a farmer and postmaster at Kanona, married Eva Snell,
and they are the parents of one child. Phillip, not married, is a
farmer near Kanona. Mary is the wife of C. Woods, of Hammonds-
port, Steuben county.

ilr. Shoemaker is peacefully passing the closing years of a long
and well-spent life, happy in the knowledge that he possesses a
prosperous and estimable family, sons and grandsons who have done
honor to his name. He confidently looks forward to the reward due
to the man who lives honestly and usefully. He has done his part
in the development of the county and the advancement of its inter-
ests and gladly lays the burden on younger shoulders, not doubting
that the Providence that has watched over the making of our his-
tory thus far will favor even greater and better things in the years
to come. In his more than sixty years of residence in this section
he«has witnessed great change and progress, while at the same time
contributing in due measure to the same and he is very loyal to the
adopted country, which has been the scene of the greater part of his
active and successful life.

Fkank 0. Gay, a farmer of Bath, New York, was born March 8,
1861, in the township of Pulteney. He is a son of Andrew and ]\la-
rietta (Rice) Gay, both natives of Steuben county, New York. An-
drew Gay was born in Howard, October 12, 1835, the son of John
and Permelia (Lounsbury) Gay. John Gay was born in Rochester,
New York, and his father, Joseph Gay, had his nativity in Balti-
more, Maryland, April 14, 1779, the latter settling first in Rochester
and subsequently removing to Steuben county. Joseph Gay was a
relative of the Gay who, according to the records of history, raised
a company at his own expense at the time of the Revolutionary
war and assisted Lafayette on his progress south through Virginia.
Joseph Gay married Sarah Laffler, July 26, 1801, and they were the
first of the Gay family to settle in Prattsburg, Steuben county. He
died in 1832 and his son, John Gay, was born October 2^, 1813, and
followed farming all his life.

Andrew Gay, father of him whose name initiates this review,
was engaged in farming for forty years in Steuben county, and he
is now living retired in Avoca village. His marriage to Marietta,
daughter of Henry and Eliza (Smith) Rice, was solemnized March
16, 1858. His wife traces her ancestry back to the Puritans of New
England and she is of the seventh generation of the family who
came to Boston in 1629 with Endicott. The subject is one of two
sons, the younger, Benjamin R., being a produce dealer of Avoca,

New York.

Frank 0. Gay is a graduate of Haverling High School, of Bath,
and a? a yotmg man he took up the work of school teaching, an oe-

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cupation in which he was engaged for three years. Then he settled
down to farming and has carried on farming and stock raising, of
which he has made a success, on his farm one mile north of the vil-
lage of Bath, on the Hammondsport road, to the present time.

Mr. Gay has always been a stanch Republican, active in party
work, and has filled various party offices, at present being town
superintendent of highways. He is the present county committee-
man, having held that office for several years.

In 1882 Mr. Gay married Miss Adela Durnian, who was born
in Bath, Steuben county, October 10, 1861, a daughter of Richard
and Elizabeth (Stewart) Durnian. Mrs. Adela Gay died March 2,
1905, after more than twenty years of happy married life, in which
she knew the joys of motherhood, and her beautiful Christian char-
acter was a potent influence for good not only in her own home but
also in the circle of her acquaintance. She was a devoted member
of the Methodist church, as also is Mr. Gay. They were the parents
of three daughters and a son. Lillian, born in 1884, is the wife of
M. H. Taylor, a farmer of Bath township ; Edna and Edwin, twins,
were bom in 1886, the former being the wife of F. B. Quinby, of
Elmira, New York. The latter, a pharmacist and a graduate of
Brooklyn College, is manager of a drug store. Marietta, born in
1895, is a student in the Bath high school.

For his second wife Mr. Gay married Louise, daughter of
William Allison, of Bath. In his church the subject has long been
prominent and active, for years having filled the office of steward.
Fraternally he is a Mason and belongs also to the Grange.

MJRS. Martin Argus, of Urbana, Steuben county, has a double
claim to honorable mention in this historic picture of sectional
progress and individual achievement. For some three decades she
performed, with faithfulness and love, the many and exacting duties
of a helpful wife and the mother of a large family, and, as has
always been the case since family records commenced, took upon
herself the greatest weight of the burdens involved in rearing the
sons and daughters to useful and honorable manhood and woman-
hood. Then when all this had been accomplished, the husband was
taken from her in the strength of his middle age, and she assumed
the responsibilities of his business, which she had successfully car-
ried for more than twenty years. The result could not be less
than it is, namely — that no member of the community is more
respected for her ability and more revered for her good works
than the widow of Martin Argus, the venerable but still active
proprietor of one of the best vineyards in Steuben county.

Mrs. Argus is a native of Rheinpfalz, Germany, born on the
24th of October, 1834, and is a daughter of Matthew and Gertrude
(Hubschmitt) Rieks. Her father died in 1847, at the age of forty-
four, a man of high intelligence who had filled for many years
the office of notary. The mother, who passed away in 1872, in her
seventy-third year, was a daughter of Sebastian and ApoUina

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 927

XOchsner) Hubschmitt, who cultivated their vineyard with con-
tentment and profit during all the years of their quiet married life.

In 1857, when a sturdy young woman of twenty-three, the
subject of tins review emigrated to the United States and com-
menced her life of industry in her adopted country near Roches-
ter, New York. Later she migrated westward and became a resi-
dent of Prairie du Chipn, Wisconsin, where she met and married
the late Martin Argus. Two years afterward the young couple
moved to Urbana, where husband and wife engaged in the culture
of grapes; and it may be that Mrs. Argus had inherited a cer-
tain liking and skill in this branch of horticulture from her ma-
ternal ancestors of the Fatherland. Mr. Argus continued as active
head of the business until his death in 1890, since which it has
been conducted by his faithful and capable widow.

The deceased was a successful and honored man; a member
of the Roman Catholic church, and strictly moral in the con-
duct of life. His fraternal relations were with the Knights of
Honor, and his Democracy was never questioned, although he never
proclaimed it as an office-seeker.

To Mr. and Mrs. Martin Argus were born the following:
ApoUina, who is now a widow with three children— Cecelia, Eugene
and Maynard; George, deceased; Charles, a resident of Rochester,
New York; Mary, who married S. Kueffen, of Urbana, and is
the mother of Walter, Harry and Paulina; Fred, who married
Lottie Eaton and has two children; Catherine, an artist and a
member of her mother's household; and Martin, who is a machinist
residing at Bath. Mrs. Argus has a brother and three sisters
still living. The first named, Thomas Reiks, is a resident of New
York city, and of her sisters the following facts may be mentioned :
Catherine is the wife of J. Gordon; May married J. Ropelt, the
piano manufacturer; and Lizette has never left the old family
home in Germany.

J. B. Conrad is prominently known in Way land as a produce
dealer, with which line of business he has been associated since
1904 and in which he has been very successful. In addition he also
owns sixty acres of good farming land in Perkinsville. On both
the paternal and maternal sides he descends from German fam-
ilies. His paternal grandparents, Philip and Elizabeth (Sehwen-
gel) Conrad, on emigrating to this country settled in Steuben
county, New York, where they became the owners of a farm.
They were upright members of society and loyal citizens of their
adopted country, as well as acceptable members of the German
Lutheran church. The maternal grandparents, Philip and Eliz-
abeth Dentz, after coming to this country prospered in their chosen
calling of farming. Philip and Elizabeth (Dentz) Conrad, the
parents of J. B., are living in Steuben county, the place of their
nativity, and he is the youngest of their three children, the other

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two being daughters, Ida, now Mrs. Hickey, and Mary, ]\Irs.
Mahenbacker.

J. B. Conrad was born at PerkinsviUe in Steuben county in
1879, and he received his education in the Cohocton high school.
His earlier years were spent in agricultural pursuits, and in course
of time he won and wed Miss Elizabeth Dides, their wedding occur-
ring in 1910. Both are members of the German Lutheran church
in PerkinsviUe.

Thomas Hassett.— He whose name initiates this paragraph is
a native son of Steuben county and a scion of one of its old and
honored families. At the present time he maintains his home in
the city of New York. He was formerly associated in no insig-
nificant way with municipal affairs in the national metropolis,
and he is recognized as a progressive and reliable business man
and able executive, the while his course has been so guided and
governed by the principles of integrity and honor as to retain to
him the confidence and uniform regard of those with whom he
has come in contact in the various relations of life.

Mr. Hassett was born at Bath, the judicial center of Steuben
county, on the 7th of February, 1865, and is a son of John and
Ann (Coyle) Hassett, both of whom were born and reared in Ire-
land. John Hassett established his home in Steuben county about
the year 1860, and the major portion of his career was one of
active identification with normal lines of productive business en-
terprise, through the medium of which he gained a due measure
of success. He was a man of sterling character and alert menta]il7/,
and he ordered his life in such a way as to merit the high esteem
in which he was held in the community that so long represented
his home. He was a Democrat in his political proclivities and
both he and his wife were zealous communicants of the Catholic
church, in whose faith they carefully reared their children. Both
continued to reside in Steuben county until their death. They
became the parents of four sons, all of whom attained to years of
maturity: Frank is deceased; Edward, who became a represen-
tative member of the bar of New York city, died on the 23rd of
February, 1910,- and to whom a special memoir is dedicated on
other pages of this work ; Hugh is a resident of Buffalo, New York ;
and Thomas, whose name forms the caption of this article, is the
youngest of the number.

Thomas Hassett is indebted to the parochial and public schools
of his native town for his early educational training, which was
supplemented by a course of study in Haverling Academy, one of
the excellent educational institutions of Steuben county. As a
young man Mr. Hassett went to Albany, the capital city of his
native state, and there remained for three years, as official stenog-
rapher in the general assembly of the state legislature. At the
expiration of the period noted, in 1896, he removed to New York
city, where for a time he was associated with his brother Edward.

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Upon the election of Hon. George R. McClellan to the ofQce of
mayor of the national metropolis this honored executive appointed
Mr. Hassett his private secretary, and the latter continued incum-
bent of this positon during Mayor McClellan 's first term. In 1905
Mr. Hassett was appointed secretary of the board of water supply
of the etiy of New York, and after serving a few years in this
capacity he resigned the office.

In polities Mr. Hassett accords a stanch allegiance to the
Democratic party, and he has given effective service in behalf of
its cause. He is identified with various social and fraternal organi-
zations, is an appreciate member of the Steuben County Society of
New York City, as well as of the Manhattan Club, and is a com-
municant of the Catholic church. Mr. Hassett is a bachelor.

Edwaed Hassett.— Pure, constant and noble was the spiritual
flame that burned in and illumined the mortal tenement of the
late Edward Hassett, who was large of heart and large of mind
and who marked the passing years with accomplishment of dis-
tinguished and benignant order. He gained prestige as one of the
able members of the bar of New York city, and this mere state-
ment bears its own significance. Though not a native of Steuben
county he was but an infant at the time when his parents estab-
lished their home in Bath, the judicial center of this county, and
here he was reared to manhood, so that he may well be claimed
as a true son of the county which he so greatly honored by his
worthy life and worthy deeds. He was a son of John and Ann
(Coyle) Hassett, both of whom were born and reared in the fair
Emerald Isle, whence they came to the United States in their youth.
John Hassett located at Bath, Steuben county, in the early '60s and
in this county both he and his wife passed the residue of their lives.
It was not theirs to attain to wealth or prominence, but industry
and worth of character were theirs, and they made the most of
their lives under the conditions that compassed them, thus gain-
ing and deserving the respect and confidence of their fellow men.
They were devout communicants of the Catholic church and showed
forth their faith in their daily lives. Frank, 'the first born of
their four sons, is deceased. Edward, subject of this memoir, was
the next in order of birth ; Hugh is a resident of the city of Buffalo
this state ; and Thomas is individually mentioned on other pages of
this volume. No better estimate of the life and character of
Edward Hassett could be desired than that given by one familiar
with his career and fully appreciative of his worth to the world;
therefore it is deemed fitting to reproduce and perpetuate, with but
slight paraphrase, in this work the estimate thus given.

Of the many sons of Steuben county whose gifts and services
shed luster on its history, none better deserves perpetual memory
that Edward Hassett. Born to no other heritage than that of
intellect and honor, by his own unaided effort he carved for him-
self an enviable niche among the great lawyers of the state of

d-.U HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

New York and a still rarer place in the affections of all who know
him.

Although born outside of Steuben county, he was but an
infant at the time of the family removal to Bath, where he spent
his youth and early professional years, and ever afterward he was
one of Steuben county's most loyal sons. He studied law in the
office of Ruggles & Little, commenced practice at Bath, and
from the first he met with flattering success. His view of the law
was a broad and noble one. If he could not deserve success he did
not want it. He looked at the law as a means of righting wrongs,
and he applied its principles with that end in view. From the
outset he shunned all efforts to compass undeserved success by arts
of sophistry or tricks of rhetoric. In his hands the exposition of
legal principles seemed the light of pure reason. If he avoided
the arts of the orator it was only that he might set forth his con-
tentions, as he did, with the logic of a master and the force of a
mind honest with itself. So he came, even in his early years, to
enjoy the confidence of the courts and the complete respect of
associates and opponents alike.

In 1889 Mr. Hassett removed to the city of New York, and
in this field of wider opportunities he repeated, in larger measures,
the professional triumphs of his earlier years. Not seldom did
he take charge of great issues where lawyers of high repute had
failed, and by applying his profound learning and logical meth-
ods quietly worked out to complete success problems that had
seemed impossible of solution. The famous Barber asphalt pav-
ing ease was one of these, although by no means the only one. In
this case Mr. Hassett succeeded in recovering more than eight hun-
dred thousand dollars where some of the most distinguished law-
yers in the country had failed to reach satisfactory results. Con-
cerning his connection with this cause celebre another authority
has given the following statements : ' ' One of the great cases in
which he was employed was that of General Averill versus the
Barber Asphalt Paving Company— a case that had been before the
courts for more than ten years. This case was originally brought
by ex-Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, and after his death was
continued by Hon. Thomas Ewing. These great lawyers failed to
bring the matter to a successful conclusion and it was turned over
to Mr. Hassett, who, after several years of most incessant labor
and deep thought and in contest with able and eloquent counsel,
obtained from the referee a judgment of eight hundred thousand
dollars. The appellate division unanimously sustained the referee's
report and the case was finally settled by General Averill 's receiv-
ing a large sum of money— beyond the legal fees, which amounted
to over one hundred thousand dollars."

But to view Mr. Hassett only as a lawyer would be unjust
to one of the noblest of men. If he was broad in his profession
he was even broader and nobler in all his relations to his fellow
men. A devoted son, a loyal brother, a consistent churchman, a

ZENAS L. PARKER

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 9J7

friend without a peer— he has left a wealth of loving memories
such as is given to few men to earn. For his friendships, his
charity, his hospitality, his kindly thought for others far outran
the limits of creed or sect, party or class. Firm in his adherence
to that which he believed, he extended to the convictions and belief
of others the same generous consideration which he claimed for
his own. So he came to a wonderful place in the affections of
all who knew him. A prince in all but the title, with all the graces
that adorn a noble soul, he was the chief spirit in every gathering.
It is no idle speech to say that he symbolized in his life the true idea
of the brotherhood of man.

All too soon his closer friends noted the resistless approach
of man's one implacable adversary, death. The splendid form
slowly yielded to malignant disease, till, in the very prime of his
life, he was summoned home. He passed to eternal rest on the
23rd of February, 1910, in his fifty-second year. On a bitter win-
ter day the cemetery and the Catholic church at Bath were thronged
with sincere mourners who had known him long and loved him
well for what he was his whole life through— one of the purest
and best of men, an honor to his country, his state, his profession
and his race. The breeze which fans the flowers in the valley of his
early home sings a gentle requiem over his last resting place, but
no song of bird or breeze or chanted hymn can equal in eloquent
harmony the loving memories which live and speak in the heart
of every friend who knew Edward Hassett as he was in life.

Zenas L. Parker. — One of the most interesting and highly
esteemed residents of Steuben county is its well-known poetical
writer. Professor Zenas L. Parker of Bath. He was born in Charle-
mont, Franklin county, Massachusetts, on February 10, 1819, has
just passed his ninety-second birthday, and is the only survivor
of a family of ten children born to Captain James Parker and
Lucretia Fales, who were married on April 9, 1795.

After completing his education in the common schools and
Charlemont Academy, he was for eleven years a successful teacher
in the rural schools of his native state, and in 1852 became assist-
ant principal of the public schools at Ithaca, New York. There
his abilities found wider scope, and there he remained until 1856,
when he was called to the very responsible position of principal
of the Corning Free Academy, at a time when it numbered only
three hundred and ninety-three pupils and when seven different
private and denominational schools were scattered about the city.
All of these were consolidated into one school of over thirteen hun-
dred pupils during his administration of about ten years. Through
individual contact with his students in their sports, as well as in
the class-room, and by adherence to the highest ideals of moral
and religious principles. Professor Parker won their confidence and
inspired in them such a high sense of honor and honesty that dur-
ing his last year there the school almost disciplined itself. At a

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time when the Board of Education were considering the discon-
tinuance of the use of the Bible in the school, he said to them,
"If you want the Bible taken out of the school, I will take it
under my arm and walk out with it," and this closed the incident.
The power of his personality is indicated by the following, written
by residents of the Crystal City more than forty years afterwards r
' ' Character building as well as scholarly attainment was his watch-
word, and the splendid work he did is still an inspiration to all who
were under his instruction. ' '

He took up his residence at his present home in Bath in 1865,
on the memorable day that Lincoln was assassinated, and for four
years continued his educational work as principal of Haverling
High School. From 1870 to 1873 he served the first district of
Steuben county as its school commissioner, and about that time
established the Parker Insurance Agency, a business he has fol-
lowed ever since, with the exception of six years, 1888 to 1893.-
when he devoted his whole time to the responsible duties of county
treasurer with such fidelity that upon his retirement the board of
supervisors appropriately expressed its appreciation of his long,
honest and efficient service to the county. He cast his first presi-
dential vote for John C. Fremont, was a firm believer in the prin-
ciples of the Republican party, and was one of its campaign
speakers and most earnest workers for many years.

Reared on a farm through which ran a trout stream, he became
an ardent sportsman and so continued as long as he could see to
bait a hook or load a gun. At the age of eighty-eight he caught
two nine-pound trout from Lake Keuka. Some time back in the
sixties he killed two deer near Coopers Plains, and the last one
seen at Lake Salubria near the village of Bath was a target for
his gun, but escaped by swimming the lake and running off over
Winegar Hill. As president of the Steuben County Sportsmen's
Club he was largely instrumental in securing to Steuben county
the New York State Fish Hatchery located at Cold Springs, in the
town of Urbana, and his love for outdoor sports may account for
his longevity and unusual vigor of mind, which enabled him to
produce such lines as the following extracts from his "Birthday
Dream," written at the age of ninety-one:

The birthday dream
Is here our theme,

And echoes through the soul,
As on the tide.
We calmly glide

Toward man's immortal goal.

Before our prime,
In childhood's time.

The years too long would last;
But now our days.
Like morning rays,

Are speeding on too fast.

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As eagles fly
Athwart the sky,

When searching for their prey;
So birthdays flee,
With you and me,

Whose locks are long and gray.

They bring us near
The gladdest year

That mortals ever know;
When clouds and night,
Give place to light,

Majestic in its glow.

So what care I
How birthdays fly

Out toward the Christian's goal;
Each passing year
Will bring us near

The homeland of the soul.

Yes, Ninety-one
Its race has run;

It will come back no more.
Till we sit down
To wear the crown

On Canaan's happy shore.

He penned the historical poem for Bath's Centennial Celebra-
tion in 1892, and for several years annually reduced to rhyme a
resume of the events of the closing year, and so many interesting
occasions in the life of the county seat and its people for almost
half a century have been put into the rhythm of his verses that
they would prove a valuable history for future generations could
they be brought together in one volume.

Perhaps one of the best of his shorter poems was the hyinn
written for the centennial celebration of the Presbyterian church
of Bath in January, 1908, the lines of which f oUow :

God of peace and battle,

God of time and space,
Thou art the King Eternal,

Yet no man sees Thy face.
Thou art a God of mercy;

Thou art a God of power;
We praise Thy matchless glory

At this centennial hour.

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"We thank Thee, our Father,

We bless Thy holy name,
That into this loved valley

Thy spirit ever came;
That here a church was planted,

And here a house was reared,
Where Christians met to worship

The God they loved and feared.

We bless Thee for the battles

Here fought on bended knees,
When this church led the conflict

Beneath the native trees;
For fathers and for mothers.

And children yet ungrown.
Who bowed in humble worship

At altars of their own.

Through Thy abounding goodness,

While in Thy house to-day,
We make new consecration

As here in song we pray.
Lead us, loving Father,

From this memorial hour,
And Thine shall be the glory,

The honor and the power.

The strong religious character of the author predominatei
his life and permeates all his writings. Beginning in the first S
day-school ever held in the old town meeting house of his I
England home about 1825, he has been a regular attendant at I
church and Sunday-school for eighty-five years, serving as an e.
in the Presbyterian church ever since 1857, first in Corning
for the past forty-five years in the Bath church, where he is i
the senior elder. He has frequently been its representative
Presbytery, and was once delegate to the General Assembly.

But perhaps Professor Parker is best known throughout
county at the present time as the president and founder of
Steuben County Old Folks' Association; and the increased re
ence for age on the part of the young folks and the number
blessings that have come to the honored old folks of the con
throught that organization, inspired and perpetuated largely
his indefatigable energy during the closing years of his active
useful career, will be a lasting memorial to his honored name
the capstone of a life lived in the faith of the Son of God
spanning almost a century of time.

On January 1, 1852, he was married to Nancy J. Warfi
also a native of Franklin county, jMassachusetts, born April

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 941

1827, who for fifty-eight years was spared to perform the sacred
duties of wife and mother and to be the light and joy of a happy
Christian household. She passed to her reward on November 6,
1910, leaving behind her entire family, consisting of her aged
husband and two sons, George Hamilton and Eugene Pales, both
well-known and respected citizens of Bath.

Chaeles L. Eingrose.— Four miles southwest of the village of
Prattsburg, in the township of the same name, is located the finely
improved fami of ]\Ir. Ringrose, who is known as one of the rep-
resentative agriculturists and stock-growers of his native county,
where he has been identified with his present line of enterprise
from his youth to the present time. He was born in the township
that is now his home and the date of his nativity was April 1,
1869. He is the eldest of the five children born to Thomas B. and
Mary (Korn) Ringrose, both of whom continued to reside in this
county until their death.

Charles L. Ringrose waxed strong in mental and physical
powers through the sturdy discipline involved in the work of the
home farm and the privileges granted him in the district schools.
It is gratifying to note that he has never wavered in his allegiance
to the great basic industry of agriculture and through his inde-
pendent indentification with the same he has achieved success
worthy of the name. His fine landed estate comprises two hun-
dred acres of excellent land and is eligibly located four miles south-
west of Prattsburg. Energy and good management have character-
ized his work as a farmer and stock-grower and the results are
tangible in the unmistakable evidences of thrift and prosperity at
his fine homestead. He is loyal to the duties of citizenship and
while he has never been ambitious for public office he gives a stanch
support to the cause of the Democratic party. Both he and his
wife hold membership in the Presbyterian church.

On the 20th of September, 1892, was solemnized the mar-
riage of Mr. Ringrose to Miss Early, who was born and reared in
Steuben county and whose father is a prosperous farmer of Pratts-
burg township. Mr. and Mrs. Ringrose have one son, Warren T.,
who was born on the 9th of December, 1896. Mr. Ringrose is a
member of Prattsburg Lodge, No. 598, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and is also identified with the Prattsburg Tent of the
Knights of the Maccabees.

Leon K. Williamson, who is ably filling the office of super-
intendent of the poor Steuben county. New York, maintains his
home at Avoea. He was born on the 21st of September, 1853,
and is a son of Ezariah Williamson, who is deceased. In 1857,
when Leon K. was a child of but four years of age, he came to
Avoea, New York, with his parents, and in that vicinity the father
turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. After the death of
his wife, Ezariah Williamson maintained his home with his daugh-

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ter, Mrs. John Waters, of Avoea. He was summoned to the life
eternal in 1902 and is survived by four children, namely, Leon K.,
who is the immediate subject of this review; William, who is a
farmer in this county; George, a resident of Kochester, New York;
and Lida, who is the wife of John Waters, who is in the employ of
the Avoca Supply Company, with business headquarters and resi-
dence at Avoca.

After completing the curriculum of the common schools of
Avoca Leon K. Williamson became identified with farming, most
of his attention being devoted to the egg and provender business.
He later engaged in the livery business at Avoca and subsequently
he became a public auctioneer. In politics he endorses the cause
of the Democratic party and in 1910 he was elected to the office
of superintendent of the poor of Steuben county. In connection
with the affairs of his office he is acquitting himself most creditably
and as a citizen he is widely renowned for his devotion to all
matters pertaining to the best interests of the community. Fra-
ternally he is connected with several representative organizations of
representative character and he supports and attends the Baptist
church, of which his wife is a devout member.

In 1908 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Williamson to
Miss Fanny Moss, who was born at Bradford, this county, on the
7th of March, 1868. She is a daughter of Philip Moss, who was a
soldier in the Civil war, in which he was seriously wounded, be-
ing troubled with the injuries so received until the time of his death
in 1906, at the age of seventy years. He was an agriculturist by
occupation and married Miss Vera Champlain, whose death oc-
curred in 1871. They were the parents of six children, two sons
and four daughters, of whom three of the sisters are deceased,
those living being Mrs. Williamson, Edward and Frank. Mr. and
Mrs. Williamson have no children. Mrs. Williamsoii is a member
of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Joseph Strong.— This successful and popular representative
of the great industry of viticulture in Steuben county is one of the
sterling citizens contributed to this county by the fair Emerald
Isle, with whose annals the family name has been identified from
remote times. He is the owner of a well-improved and most
productive vineyard in Urbana township and is prominently iden-
tified with the manufacturing of high-grade wines— a line of enter-
prise that has given Steuben county wide repute.

Joseph Strong was born in Kings county, Ireland, on the 24th
of November, 1849, and is a son of Joseph and Ann Jane (Kelley)
Strong, both of whom were likewise bom and reared in that same
county of the Emerald Isle, where their marriage was solemnized
and where they continiied to maintain their home until 1852, when
they emigrated to Am!erica and established their residence in the
city of Albany, New York, where the father engaged in the grocery
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viously been identified in his native land. Both he and his wife
continued to reside in the capital city of the Empire state until
their death, and both were well advanced in years when they were
summoned to the life eternal. Joseph Strong, Sr., was a son of
Joseph Strong, who was a prosperous farmer in the county of
Kildare, Ireland, where he served as high sheriff for a period of
fifty-four years and where he was a prominent and influential
citizen. The business established so many years ago by Joseph
Strong (II) in the city of Albany is still conducted by members of
the family and represents one of the pioneer enterprises of its kind
in the capital city. Joseph and Ann Jane (Kelley) Strong were
zealous communicants of Grace church. All of their surviving
children with the exception of the subject of this review still reside
in Albany, namely: Robert, "William, George and Lucy.

Joseph Strong, Jr., whose name initiates this article, was a
child of about three years at the time of the family emigration to
the United States, and his early educational training was secured in
the schools of the city of Albany. As a youth he became a clerk in
his father's store, where he continued to be thus here engaged for a
period of five years. On the 1st of January, 1870, Mr. Strong came
to Steuben county and secured a position in the employ of the
Urbana Wine Company, with which he has been connected during
the long intervening period of forty years, within which time
he has been advanced to a position of executive importance. He
is the owner of- a well-improved vineyard in Urbana township,
and is one of the well-known and successful viticulturists and hon-
ored citizens of the county that has so long represented his home.
He has been progressive and loyal as a citizen and it should be
noted that he was one of the most influential factors in establishing
the Wine Cellar road, in 1876, and in securing the establishment of
the Soldiers' Home at Bath, this county. He served on the staff of
Lieutenant Governor Woodruff for a period of five years, and has
long shown marked interest in the affairs of the state militia. He
is affiliated with the Knights of Honor and both he and his wife are
attendants of the Protestant Episcopal church, in which they hold
membership in the parish of St. James' church, at Hammondsport.

In the year 1872 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Strong
to Miss Alice Smith, who was born in Urbana township, this county,
on the 9th of January, 1849, and who is a daughter of the late Silas
and Rebecca (Fairfield) Smith. In the maternal line Mrs. Strong
is a great-granddaughter of Judge Baker, a distinguished repre-
sentative of one gf the old and honored families of the Empire
state. He was most probably the first white man that took up his
abode in Pleasant valley, and for many years he lived close to an
Indian camp. Concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Strong
the following brief data are consistently entered for perj3etuati6n in
this article : Charles, who is associated with the Urbana Wine Com-
pany, married Miss Martha Albright ; Emma is the wife of Benjamin
Early; of Urbana ; and Gertrude is the wife of Jacob Dittiacur, of:
Wayne, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Strong have two grandchildren.

944 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

Lucros N. Manlby.— One of the prominent lawyers of Queens
county is Judge Manley, who has been for many years engaged in
the practice of his profession at Long Island City. He now has his
office at 103 Third street, Long Island City. Judge Manley was
born on a farm in the township of Addison, Steuben county, on the
24th of June, 1843; and is a son of Nehemiah and Jane (Baker)
Manley, the former of whom was born at Otsego county, New York,
and the latter in Charleston, Pennsylvania. Nehemiah IManley be-
came one of the early settlers of Steuben county, where he was
prominently identified with the lumbering and agricultural indus-
tries for many years. He was supervisor of the town of Tuscarora
in 1861, soon after it was set off from the town of Addison. He was
born in the year 1800, and his death occurred in 1879. His father,
George Manley, was a native of Connecticut and a representative
of a family that was founded in New England in the early Colonial
days, the same being of English descent. George Manley passed the
closing years of his life in Steuben county and his name merits a
place on the roster of the honored pioneers of the old Empire state.
The mother of Judge Manley was of Scotch-Irish descent and she
was bom in the year 1811 and died 1890. Of the children of this
couple Judge Manley is the only son that attained to years of
maturity.

Lucius N. Manley was reared to the sturdy discipline of the
farm and under the direction of his honored father he gained splen-
did training in connection with the practical affairs of life. He
duly availed himself of the advantages of the common schools of
his native county and he continued to be associated in the work
of the home farm until he was nineteen years of age, when he
entered Alfred University, at Alfred, Allegany county, where he
continued his higher academic studies for two years. Thereafter he
put his scholastic acquirements to practical test and utilization by
teaching in the public schools about four terms. He then began the
study of law under effective preceptorship at Addison, Steuben
county, and in January, 1872, he proved himself eligible for and
was admitted to the bar of Steuben county. In the autumn of the
same year he established his home in Long Island City and here the
work of his profession has engaged his attention during the long
intervening period of more than thirty-eight years. He has been
prominent and influential in connection with public affairs of
Queens county and has given yeoman service in behalf of the cause
of the Republican party, being one of its leading representatives
in this county. He has been twice elected to the office of local
judge. At one time he was the candidate of his party for the office
of mayor of the city, but was unable to overcome the normal Demo-
cratic majority. He was a member of the state constitutional con-
vention of 1894 and in 1904 he was the candidate of his party for
the office of surrogate, and while in this election he received more
votes in Long Island City than were accorded to the presidential
nominee, Theodore Roosevelt, he was defeated. The judge is a

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valued member of the Queens County Bar Association and holds
membership in the Steuben Society of New York City, where he
also holds membership in the City Club. He is a member of the
congregation of All Souls' church (Unitarian), New York city.

Judge Manley has been twice married. In the year 1877 he
wedded Miss Olive P. Weatherby, of Addison, Steuben county, who
died in 1881, being survived by one son— Edward W., who now re-
sides in the city of New York. In 1885 Judge Manley was united in
marriage to Miss Elsie H. Hillmann, of New York city, and the
four children of this union are Frederick, Martha, Helen and
Alice.

Alexander M. Stewabt, M. D.— A representative physician
and surgeon at Atlanta, Steuben county. New York, Dr. Alexander
McClaren Stewart has gained distinctive precedence as one of the
ablest medical practitioners in this section of the state and he has
maintained his home in Atlanta since 1903. He was born in the
province of Quebec, Canada, on the 14th of April, 1872, and is a
son of Robert and Janet (Grant) Stewart, the latter of whom is
deceased and the former of whom is now living, at the age of
eighty-two years, on his fine farm of two hundred and fifty acres
in Canada. Robert Stewart was born in the county of Lanark,
province of Ontario, Canada, and he was but four years of age
at the time of his parents' removal to Quebec, in 1832. He has been
engaged in agricultural pursuits throughout his entire active busi-
ness careei* and in this line of enterprise he has achieved most note-
worthy success. He married Janet Grant, a daughter of William
Grant, a native of Glasgow, Scotland. Mrs. Stewart was summoned
to the life eternal in 1872, shortly after the birth of the Doctor, at
which time she was but forty-two years of age. Mr. Robert Stewart
is a member of the Presbyterian church, in which he has been an
elder for a number of years.

Dr. Stewart is the youngest in a family of seven children and
concerning his brothers and sisters the following brief data are
here entered : William is engaged in ranching in Montana ; Robert
is identified with the furniture business in the city of Rochester,
New York; George, who is a doctor by profession, resides in the
province of Alberta, Canada ; Mary is the wife of L. Beal, professor
of music at Broclrville, Canada; Janet is the wife of D. Chinder-
son, a farmer in Alberta, Canada ; and Sarah is married, and resides
in the city of Buffalo, New York. Dr. Stewart was reared to the
sturdy discipline of the home farm and he continued to be asso-
ciated with his father in the work and management thereof until he
had attained to the age of nineteen years, at which time he went
to Rochester, New York, where he secured employment in a carpet
and furniture house and where he attended night school, in prep-
aration for the Academy of Rochester, which he attended for one
year. Thereafter he was a student in the high school at Atlanta for
two and a half years, at the expiration of which he spent four years

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in a medical college in Syracuse. After leaving Syracuse he spent
some time in Canada, under Dr. McFarland, and in the fall of 1903
he made permanent settlement at Atlanta, where he has since
resided. He has built up a large and lucrative practice and is
proving most successful in his particular field of endeavor. He
is giving most efficient service as medical examiner in the lodge of
the Knights of the Maccabees and in a professional way he is
affiliated with the Steuben County Medical Society. Fraternally
he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in the
time-honored Masonic fraternity he holds membership in Liberty
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Cohocton, and with the Royal
Arch Masons at Bath. He has ever given freely of his aid and
influence in support of all measures projected for the general wel-
fare of the community. He and his wife are devout members of
the Presbyterian church, in the various departments of whose work
they have been most liberal and active factors.

Dr. Stewart married Miss Marie Goundry, a daughter of John
and Ella (Clement) Goundry, the former of whom is engaged in
agricultural pursuits, and the latter of whom is deceased. Dr.
and Mrs. Stewart have no children.

James E. Walker, M. D.— Other men's services to the people
and state can be measured by definite deeds, by dangers averted, by
legislation secured, by institutions built, by commerce promoted.
The work of a doctor is entirely estranged from these lines of enter-
prise, yet without his capable, health-giving assistance all other
accomplishments would count for naught. Man's greatest prize on
earth is physical health and vigor. Nothing deterioriates mental
activity as quickly as prolonged sickness— hence the broad field for
human helpfulness afforded in the medical profession. The suc-
cessful doctor requires something more than mere technical train-
ing—he must be a man of broad human sympathy and genial kindli-
ness, capable of inspiring hope and faith in the heart of his patient.
Such a man is Dr. James E. Walker, who for the past sixteen years
has been superintendent of the Steuben Sanitarium. The years
have told the story of a successful career due to the possession of
innate talent and acquired ability along the line of one of the most
important professions to which man may devote his energies—
the alleviation of pain and suffering and the restoration of health.

Dr. Walker was Born in Nunda, Livingston county. New York,
on the 21st of May, 1854, and he is a son of Henry L. and Susan
(Perry) Walker, both of whom are now dead. The seventh in order
of birth in a family of nine children. Dr. Walker received his
preliminary educational training in the public schools of his native
town, this discipline being later supplemented by a course of study
in the State Normal School at Geneseo, New York. At sixteen
years of age he began teaching school, studying most assiduously
during all his leisure time. At eighteen he became a student of
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he was matriculated in the Cincinnati Medical College, from which
excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the class of
1876, duly receiving his well-earned degree of Doctor of Medicine.
Immediately after his graduation he initiated his active practice of
the profession at Arkport, Steuben county, and here he built up a
large and representative patronage, gaining precedence as the ablest
physician and surgeon in the county. In 1883 he pursued a post-
graduate course requiring several months' work, in New York
city. Thereafter he continued his practice in Arkport until 1892,
when he sold his home and drug store and removed to Buffalo.
After a few months' practice there he became chief of staff of
Sterlingworth Sanitarium, filling this position with utmost ability
for one year. In October, 1893, he went to London, England, and
spent some time at the Brompton Hospital for diseases of the chest,
also taking a course in bacteriology and microscopy at Kings Col-
lege. Extending his travels to the continent he visited the various
hospitals and the Pasteur Institute of the French capital, and then
proceeded to Germany, stopping for a time at the celebrated Sani-
tarium for Tuberculosis at Honiff on the Rhine. He then went to
Berlin to investigate the methods of the Koch institute and to visit
the hospitals of the German capital. Not being. able to get the work
he desired, he went to Vienna, remaining for some months, taking
special courses in medical and surgical subjects. At the meeting
of the International Medical Congress held in Rome, he was made a
member of that great body. Returning to the United States he
toured the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, studying its
climatology in its relation to tuberculosis. In November, 1894, he
was proffered and accepted the superintendency of the Steuben
Sanitarium at Hornell, which position he has filled to the present
time, as previously noted. There has been scarcely a year that he
has not been in Europe, where he has combined medical work with
pleasure, and there are but few cities on the other side of the At-
lantic with which he is not familiar, particularly with their hos-
pitals. Having crossed the ocean sixteen times, he feels quite as
much at home in one part of the world as another, and he has
introduced into the Steuben Sanitarium whatever he has found to be
of benefit to suffering humanity. In the winter of 1910 he spent
some time in Spain and Portugal, afterward going to Bad Nauheim,
Germany, the celebrated resort for the care of those suffering from
heart diseases. Here he remained some weeks studying their physi-
cal and hydrotherapeutic methods, which he had introduced in his
work fifteen years ago and with which he has been so successful.
The Doctor does no medical or surgical work outside the Sani-
tarium, excepting in consultation with his professional friends, who
are many, throughout western New York and northern Pennsyl-
vania.

When the Doctor assumed charge of the Steuben Sanitarium
this institution boasted but one patient ; now it is one of the best
equipped and most admirably conducted medical and surgical insti-

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tutions in the country, filled with patients not only from different
states, but from foreign countries as well. The foregoing record
concerning the Doctor's studies and preparation for his profession
is ample voucher of his ability and his success has been on a parity
with his well-directed endeavors.

In a professional way Dr. Walker is a valued and appreciative
member of the Hornell Medical and Surgical Association, of which
he was at one time president ; the Keuka Lake Medical and Surgical
Association, of which he is also an ex-president ; the Steuben County
Medical Society and the New York State Medical Society ; and the
American Medical Association. He is also an honorary member of
many other medical bodies. In the time honored Masonic fraternity
he has passed through the circle of York Rite Masonry, holding
membership in Steuben Chapter, No. 101, and DeMolay Com-
mandery No. 22, Knights Templars, besides which he is also a
member of Ismalia Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine, at Buffalo.

In both politics and religion the Doctor is exceedingly liberal,
but he is a firm believer in righteousness and whatever tends toward
the upbuilding of society and the general welfare of the community.
He is very fond of art and music and is something of a student of
both. His extensive travel has given him an opportunity to enjoy
much in these directions, as he is familiar with almost every part of
the globe. He has never been married, except to his profession, of
which he is very fond.

Henry P. Wilcox. — One of the representative citizens and
progressive business men of his native county is the present efficient
and popular postmaster of the village of Cohoeton, which has been
his home from the time of his nativity and in which he is success-
fully engaged in the lumber and produce business, the while he has
served continuously as postmaster since 1900.

Henry Plato Wilcox was born in Cohoeton on the 3d of June,
1870, and is a son of Albert H. and Fannie (Parmenter) Wilcox,
representatives of families whose names have been prominently
identified with the history of this section of the state since the
pioneer days. Albert Hopkins Wilcox was born in Springwater
township, Livingston county, New York, on the 9th of February,
1844, and the old homestead farm was not far distant from the
Steuben county line. He was a son of David H. Wilcox, who moved
to Livingston county from Homer, Cortland county, in an early
day and established his home in Springwater township, where he
purchased land and where he also engaged in the operation of
flour and saw mills, having also a mill at Slab City and one in
Perry township. In 1850 he established his home in Cohoeton, where
he purchased a grist mill, which he continued to operate until 1867,
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established in 1856. He sold his mill properties in 1867 and his
death occurred in June of the following year, when he was of
venerable age. He was a man of ability and sterling character and
did much to advance the civic and material prosperity of the county.
He united with the Republican party at the time of its organization
and he served seven terms as supervisor of his township. He
wielded much influence in connection with public affairs of a local
order and was a citizen to whom was ever accorded the fullest
measure of confidence and regard. He was the prime factor in
affecting the organization of the Cohocton Universalist church, and
both he and his wife were most zealous members of the same. He
was affiliated with Liberty Lodge, No. 510, Free and Accepted
Masons, and also with the Cohocton lodge of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. He married Miss Delia A. Hopkins, of Spring-
water township, Livingston county, and they became the parents
of nine children. I ! . i

Albert H. Wilcox was a lad of six years at the time when the
family moved to Cohocton, where he was reared to maturity and
where he duly availed himself of the privileges afforded in the
common schools. As a youth he was associated with his father's
varied business activities and in 1868, when twenty-four years of
age, he became manager and superintendent of the business of
Thomas Warner, of Cohocton. He thus continued until 1882, in
which year he removed to Kanona, this county, where he was asso-
ciated with a partner in the lumber business until 1885. In 1883
he had become a member of the lumber firm of Warner, Turner &
Wilcox, which conducted operations at Elmira, New York, and in
Pennsylvania. In 1886 he returned to Cohocton and here engaged
in the lumber, shingle and coal business, both wholesale and retail,
and in addition to these interests he here became the owner of a well
equipped planing mill. With these lines of business he is still
actively identified and he has gained precedence as one of the most
aggressive and influential business men of this part of the county,
besides which he has been influential in public affairs and has an
impregnable hold upon popular confidence and esteem. He is a
zealous supporter of the principles and policies for which the Re-
publican party stands sponsor, and in 1891-2 he served as supervisor
of his township. He was a member of the first board of water
commissioners of Cohocton and was its president for two years,
and since 1892 he has been president of the Cohocton Dime Loan
Association.

In 1864 was solemnized the marriage of Albert H. Wilcox
to Miss Fannie Parmenter, who was born and reared in this state.
Mr. Wilcox, of this review, has a brother and sister living : Edmund
Parmenter Wilcox, who is a member of the United States navy
and who is now in charge of the navy recruiting station in New
York city, and Helen, who is the wife of James C. Barber, a suc-
cessful contractor and builder in the city of Rochester.

To the public schools of Cohocton Henry P. Wilcox is in-

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debted for his early educational discipline, which was supplemented
by a course of two terms in a business college in the city of Elmira.
In 1886 he became associated with his father in the lumber, coal,
produce and building-material business, and this alliance has since
been continued, under the firm name of A. H. "Wilcox & Son. He
is also the owner of valuable farm property in Steuben county,
besides real estate in Cohocton.

In politics Mr. Wilcox has given an unwavering allegiance to
the cause of the Republican party, and he has given effective service
in the promotion of its interests in his native county. In 1900 he
was appointed postmaster of Cohocton, and of this office he has
since continued incumbent. He has made many improvements in
the local service and his administration has met with uniform com-
mendation. Mr. Wilcox is affiliated with Liberty Lodge, No. 510,'
Free and Accepted Masons, and is thus a representative of the
third generation of the family to be identified with this lodge,
in which he has passed various official chairs. He is also a member
of the Modern Woodmen of America.

Mr. Wilcox married Jennie L. Allen, who was born in Avoca
township, this county, on the 15th of February, 1872, and who is
a daughter of William and Mary Catherine (Foults) Allen, the
former of whom died on his homestead farm in Avoca township in
1876, and the latter of whom now resides in the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Wilcox. The father was a valiant soldier of the Union,
in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox became the parents of
three children, one of whom, Louise, died in infancy ; Allen Albert,
who was. born August 19, 1894, and Lester Edward, who was born
October 16, 1903, are both attending the public schools.

David Travis Darein was born at Elmira, New York, July 4,
1823, and removed with his parents while still young to Barring-
ton, Yates county. New York. His father, Ira Darrin, was a native
of Hillsdale, Columbia county. New York. He removed to Elmira,
where he was married to Margaret Knapp, daughter of Jabez
Knapp, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and resided at Chester,
Orange county. New York.

Daniel Darrin, the father of Ira Darrin, was a native of New
Britain, Connecticut, and served under General Putnam in the war
of the Revolution. Jabez Knapp was a descendant of Nicholas
Knapp, who came to America with John Winthrop in 1630 and set-
tled at Watertown, Massachusetts. Daniel Darrin was a descendant
of Ephraim Darrin (Darwin'), residing at Gilford, Connecticut, in
1640.

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David T. Darrin received his education in the country schools of
Yates county and at Starkey Seminary at Eddytown, in that county.
On March 26, 1848, he married Mary Jane Matthews, also a grad-
uate of Starkey Seminary. In 1853 Mr. Darrin removed with his
wife and son Delmar to the village of Addison, Steuben county.

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where he engaged in the manufacture of wagons continuously
thereafter until his death, January 30, 1897.

From earliest boyhood Mr. Darrin was interested in all matters
pertaining to religious and educational life and to the great public
questions of his day. He was one of the founders of the Church of
the Redeemer at Addison and served as vestryman and warden of
the church for upwards of forty-three years, and the affection and
respect in which he was held by all who knew him testify con-
vincingly to the sincerity and earnestness of his religious beliefs.
He engaged actively in organizing the Addison Free Academy, one
of the first schools organized in the state under the New Union
Free School Act, and thereafter as a member of his district School
Board and as a trustee of the Board of Education of the village of
Addison he devoted himself earnestly and intelligently to the im-
provement of the schools of the village for more than twenty-five
years.

Mr. Darrin became a member of the Republican party at the
time of its organization and remained a consistent and earnest sup-
porter of its principles and devoted himself to its welfare through-
out his life. During the Civil war he, with Josiah Curtis and Row-
land Griswold, were constituted a committee to raise the quota of
soldiers required to be furnished by the town of Addison. At the
conclusion of their services the governor complimented them and
the town of Addison by saying "that in the matter of filling his
quota it certainly was the banner town of the state. ' '

Mr. Darrin 's wife died March 30, 1891. They left three sons,
Delmar Matthew Darrin, David Herbert Darrin and Ira G. Darrin,
sketches in regard to whom appear below.

Delmar M. Darrin was born in the town of Barrington, Yates
county. New York, June 6, 1849, and is the son of David T. and
Mary Jane (Matthews) Darrin. In 1853 the family removed to
Addison, Steuben county, where Mr. Darrin received his early
education and prepared for college in the then famous Addison
Academy. He graduated in the first class at Cornell University, in
the year 1872. At the conclusion of his college course he engaged
in the study of law with Col. John W. Dininny, one of the leading
lawyers of Steuben county, and was admitted to the practice of law
in 1875. Since his admission to the bar Mr. Darrin has continu-
ously practiced law at Addison and in the city of Corning, where
since 1902 he has maintained offices in association with his son, Hugh
Webster Darrin, under the firm name of Darrin & Darrin.

Mr. Darrin has always been interested in religious and educa-
tional affairs. As a vestryman and warden of the Church of the
Redeemer in his home town he has devoted the best of his abilities
to the promotion of the welfare of the church. As a member of the
Board of Education for a period of over twenty-three years, as
clerk, trustee and president, and since the year 1893 as trustee
of the Addison Public Library and as president of the Library

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Board, he has manifested the keenest interest in all matters relating
to the educational welfare of the community. An earnest Republi-
can in politics, he has throughout his life devoted himself to the
promotion of its principles and welfare. For many years he served
as corporation counsel of the village of Addison, and since 1901 he
has been referee in bankruptcy in his district.

On June 26, 1876, Mr. Darrin married Miss Mary Hill Dawson,
of Plainfield, New Jersey, a daughter of John W. Hill and adopted
daughter of her uncle, Charles C. Dawson.

Ira G. Darrin was born in the village of Addison, Steuben
county, on the 5th day of August, 1858, and is a son of David T.
Darrin and Mary Jane (Matthews) Darrin. In the fall of 1879 Mr.
Darrin entered Columbia College Law School and was admitted to
the bar December 12th of the same year.

In 1881 Mr. Darrin commenced the practice of his profession
at BoUiver, Allegany county. New York, where he remained until
the fall of 1884, when he removed his office to Corning, Steuben
county. In 1886 he removed to the city of New York and has since
continued the practice of law in that city. Mr. Darrin was elected
and served a term as district attorney of Queens county, from
January 1, 1906, to December 31, 1908. A Republican in politics,
he has for many years taken an active interest in its welfare.

Mr. Darrin is a member of the Association of th^ Bar of the
State of New York, the Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, the Queens County Bar Association and, of course, of the
Steuben Society of the City of New York.

Mr. Darrin 's wife was Mary S. Davies, daughter of James
Davies and Angeline, his wife, of Durhamville, Oneida county. New
York, to whom he was married in July, 1886.

David H. Darrin was born in the village of Addison, Steuben
county, April 22, 1867, and is a son of David T. and Mary Jane
(Matthews) Darrin. In 1885, at the age of eighteen years, he en-
tered upon a mechanical and electrical apprenticeship at the city
of Elmira, Chemung county, and later removed to the city of Buf-
falo and engaged in the same line of business until 1895, at which
time he removed to the city of New York and engaged in the manu-
facture of elevators and automatic electrical controllers. Mr. Dar-
rin has been exceptionally successful as a mechanical and electrical
engineer, to which profession he devotes his entire energy. "While
an ardent Republican in politics, he has never engaged in the active
work of the party.

Mr. Darrin is a member of the New York Electrical Society,
General Society of Mechanical Engineers and Tradesmen, the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Engineers'
Club of the city of New York. He is also a member of the Hen-
driek Hudson Yacht Club.

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 957

Judge Almon Whitney BxmEELL, of Canisteo, former district
attorney of Steuben county and present county judge, is, to speak
with all due conservativeness, one of the most prominent and highly
esteemed of the citizens not alone of the town fortunate enough to
claim his residence but also of the county in whose affairs he plays a
leading role. Since his admission to the bar in 1894 he has enjoyed
splendid standing as a lawyer, which eventually found unmistakable
expression in his elevation to the county bench, and it has been his
to serve his county and state with distinction as a public man and as
a private citizen. He is a representative of old and honored families
of New England, that cradle of so much of our national history,
and he is descended from the same stock as some of the most admira-
ble and interesting of our American heroes and patriots, notable
among these being Colonel Ethan Allen.

Mr. Burrell is a native son of the state, the place of his nativity
having been Angelica, Allegany county, and its date October 15,

1865. His father is Alphonse H. Burrell, lawyer and district attor-
ney of Steuben county, and the maiden name of the mother was
Sarah C. Allen. This worthy couple gave to the state four good
citizens, Mr. Burrell having three brothers— Fred, Marshall M. and
Mareellus E. It has been the pleasant fate of the family not to suf-
fer disintegration, and the father and four sons all reside in Canis-
teo. The mother, a woman worthy of all honor and admiration,
died December 27, 1900. As mentioned in the preceding paragraph,
Mr. Burrell is descended on the paternal side from the same stock as
Ethan Allen, who was his great-great-grandmother's brother, while
on the maternal side he comes from good, hardy American stock,
his ancestors having been men of fine actions and high principles.
In the subject one is reminded that, "Mental and moral capital are
treasures invested for us by our forefathers. Nature takes the
grandsire's ability and puts it out at compound interest for the
grandson."

Alphonse H. Burrell, father of the subject, and his wife, moved
to Canisteo from Angelica, Allegany county, in the latter part of

1866, and the step was an important one, for here the family resi-
dence has ever since been maintained. The father is still living, in
his eighty-fifth year, sound and well-preserved both mentally and
physically and daily engaging in the practice of the law, to which
profession he has since his youth been an ornament. Mr. Burrell
was only about a year old when his parents made their change of
residence. As soon as his years were sufficient he began his attend-
ance in the public schools and he subsequently entered Canisteo
Academy, from which institution he was graduated with the class of
1884, when nineteen years of age. Like Oliver Twist, hungering for
more, he subsequently matriculated in the Genesee Wesleyan Semi-
nary, at Lima, New York, and was graduated in 1887 from its classi-
cal department. He was led very naturally to take up the law from
the fact that his father was a lawyer and that he helped more or,
less in his office, and his first step after leaving the portals of the

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Genesee Wesleyan Seminary was to attack his Blaekstone as a
general attacks a hostile entrenchment, pursuing his studies in his
father's office at Canisteo. He was already familiar to some extent
with legal matters, for he had frequently acted in the capacity of a
clerk for his father, indeed fairly growing up in an atmosphere of
the law, and even as a youth having legal terms at his tongue's end.
An uncle was also an active practitioner at the bar and, as in many
similar caees, a fondness and predilection for the profession seems
to have been inherent.

Very successful in his preparatory studies, Judge Burrell was
admitted to the bar in 1894, at Buffalo, New York, and ever since
that time he has been actively engaged in the practice of the law at
Canisteo, where he has built up a large and loyal clientele, being
associated with his father under the firm name of A. H. & A. W.
Burrell. A remarkably good equipment has easily won for him
high repute and professional success, and he ever meets grave ques-
tions with perfect valor and incomparable ability. Inspiring the
confidence of all with whom he comes in contact and what is more
important, retaining it against all events, he is one to whom the
community which knows him best looks as the proper incumbent of
public office. His career as a public servant has been varied, for he
was elected justice of the peace in 1887, while a law student. He
served as village attorney of Canisteo for several years, and in
November, 1900, distinctive mark of the strong hold he had gained
upon popular esteem in the community was given in his election as
district attorney of Steuben county, and his re-election in 1903 for a
second term was in eloquent testimony of the satisfactory character
of his services. He served until May 1, 1906, at which time he was
appointed Steuben county .judge by Governor Higgins, there being a
vacancy in that office succeeding Judge William W. Clark, who had
been appointed to the supreme court bench. Mr. Burrell, upon
being notified of his appointment, immediately resigned as district
attorney, and wiring his resignation to the governor, his appoint-
ment was at- once confirmed by the senate and he entered upon his
duties as judge of the county court. In the fall of 1906 Judge
Burrell, having already ' ' given a taste of his quality, ' ' was nomi-
nated and elected county judge for a full term of six y^ars from
January 1, 1907, and is now serving that term, the renown of his
wisdom and ability having spread far beyond the confines of Steu-
ben county. He gives the best of himself to every duty and while
district attorney he was frequently complimented upon the able
manner in which he prepared his cases before the grand jury and at
the trial court.

Politically Mr. Burrell is an ardent Republican, coming from a
family which has ever endorsed that political faith. He is familiar
with the articles of its faith, from his youth having poured over
the pages of its history and found inspiration in all of its high
traditions. In fact, he has championed Republican principles on
the stump in every campaign since he became of age. He is a prac-

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY 959

tical orator sehooled in the principles of platform address, rich and
fluent of speech and possessing the rare ability to baptize himself
in his subject and to carry bis audience with him to each climax.
In addition to his many other distinctions, Judge Burrell is one of
the most prominent of Steuben county Masons. He is a member of
Morning Star Lodge, No. 65, F. & A. M., of Canisteo, New York;
of Steuben Chapter, No. 101, R. A. M., of Hornell, New York;
DeMolay Commandery, No. 22, Knights Templars, of Hornell, New
York ; and he is a Thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of
Corning Consistory, of Corning, New York. His other fraternal
relations extend to Mountain Lodge, No. 503, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows ; and Canisteo Tent, Knights of the Tented Maccabees.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Canisteo and
for many years was secretary of the Sunday-school. Ever in the
forefront of any movement calculated to bring benefit to the com-
munity at large, he was active in the organization of the public
library at Canisteo, known as the Wimodaughsien Free Library.
Judge Burrell was the first president of the board of trustees,
which office he still holds, having been re-elected from time to time
by the Wimodaughsien Ladies' Club, whose members were the
sponsors for the new library and selected its board of trustees. It
was they who furnished the funds necessary for its maintenance,
although a part of this responsibility has now been assumed by the
village of Canisteo.

One of Judge Burrell 's most prominent characteristics is his
love of reading and good books, a quality evinced in his earliest
boyhood and one which has suffered no diminution with the passage
of the years and the encroachment of many duties.

An ideally happy life companionship was inaugurated when on
November 28, 1894, Judge Burrell was married at Richmond Mills,
Ontario county, New York, to Miss Lalla Olive Townsend, of that
place, a daughter of Alonzo W. Townsend, a lumber manufacturer.
Mrs. Burrell at the time of her marriage was a teacher in the Canis-
teo Academy, at Canisteo, having held that position with great
efficiency for ten years. The birth of two daughters has blessed this
union, ©orothy Helen, born March 9, 1900, died April 17, 1901 ;
and Hatherine T. was born August 26, 1904. Mrs. Burrell 's ances-
tors were prominent in the war of the American Revolution and also
in the War of 1812, and she possesses a badge worn by Captain
Daniel Townsend, a member of the Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry,
in the Revolutionary war. She is in a direct line of descent from
Ethan Allen, of.Revolutionary fame, as is her husband. Judge Bur-
rell, it being a surprising fact that the great-great-grandmother of
each were sisters of Captain Ethan Allen.

The home of Judge and Mrs. Burrell is one of the most cul-
tured and attractive of the abodes of Steuben county, and is widely
known as the centre of a gracious hospitality.

960 HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY

Hon. Edwin Stewakt Underbill, of Corning, publisher of
the Evening Leader and the Steuben Farmers' Advocate and mem-
ber of congress from the Thirty-third New York district, was born
in Bath, that state, October 7, 1861. His parents were Anthony L.
Underbill and Charlotte McBeth. His father was for over forty
years editor and publisher of the Steuien Farmers' Advocate in
Bath; was postmaster of Bath and Democratic presidential elector
on the Cleveland ticket in 1884. He is a direct descendant in the
eighth generation of Captain John Underbill, at one time governor
of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and who obtained fame as
an Indian fighter in the war which the early settlers of Massachu-
setts had with the Pequot Indians.

Mr. Underbill, of this sketch, graduated from Haverling High
School in Bath and entered Yale, where he graduated from the
academic department in 1881. Soon after graduation he entered
the office of the Steuben Farmers' Advocate and was associated
with his father in its publication during the latter 's life time. In
the presidential year of 1884 he was chosen chairman of the Demo-
cratic County Committee and served in that capacity several years.
In 1888 he was the nominee of the Democratic party for presidential
elector for his district. For a time he was editor of the Canandaigua
(N. Y.) Messenger, which was published by his father. In Septem-
ber, 1899, with his father, he purchased the Corning Daily Demo-
crat, since changed to the Coming Evening Leader. Since his
father's death, in 1902, he has been the publisher of the Advocate
and the Leader.

Mr. Underbill is a vestryman in St. Thomas Episcopal church,
at Bath; vice-president of the Davenport library, and a member
of the Board of Education. He was district deputy grand master of
the Thirty-fourth Masonic district for two years. He is also a mem-
ber of Corning Consistory, of Kalurah Temple, Mystic Shrine and
of the Elks. In 1902 he was elected president of the New York
State Press Association, and in 1907 was honored with the presi-
dency of the New York State Associated Dailies. In 1910 he was
elected representative in congress for the Thirty-third district of
New York, to succeed J. S. Fassett, Republican, whom he defeated
by about two thousand plurality.

Mr. Underbill was married October 9, 1884, to Minerva Eliza-
beth, only daughter of William W. Allen and Helen M. Ganse-
voort. Two sons, William Allen Underbill, born January 28, 1888,
and Edwin Stewart Underbill, Jr., born April 18, 1890, are their
only children. The former graduated from Yale, in 1910 (acad-
emic) and the latter in the class of 1911 (scientific), and both are
now associated with their father in the newspaper business.

Abner T. Niver is a representative of one of the sterling pio-
neer families of Steuben county and in his native county he is
following the sturdy trade which constituted the vocation of his
, honored father. He is a skilled artisan as a blacksmith and has

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built up a large and successful business, the while his impregnable
integrity in all the relations of life has gained him the unequivocal
confidence and esteem of the community which has been his home
throughout his life.

Abner T. Niver was born in Caton township, Steuben county,
on the 2nd of October, 1854, and is a son of Evert D. and Char-
lotte A. (Clark) Niver, the former of whom was born in Orange
county, this state, and the latter in Reading, Schuyler county. The
parents continued to reside in this county until the time of their
death, the father having here established his home about the year
1850 and being engaged in the work of his trade, to which he here
devoted his attention imtil 1876, when his son Abner, the subject
of this review, assumed charge of the shop. Not only was Evert D.
Niver a skilled blacksmith but he was also successful as a wagon
maker, in which connection he controlled for many years a pros-
perous business. Upon withdrawing from the work of his trade
he removed to Hammondsport township, where he secured a tract
of land and turned -his attention to grape culture, which he con-
tinued during the residue of his active career and in which he met
with a due measure of success. He passed to his reward in 1887
and his cherished and devoted wife was summoned to the life eternal
in 1890. Both were members of the Baptist church and in poll:
tics he gave his allegiance to the Democratic party. Evert D. and
Charlotte A. (Clark) Niver became the parents of eight children,
all of whom are living and concerning them the following brief
record is consistently entered: Ruth is the wife of L. H. Curtis, of
Rochester, Monroe county; Marian is the wife of Carmon Carr, of
Grove Spring, Steuben county; Abner T. is the immediate subject
of this sketch; Frederick and D. 0. reside at Hornell, Steuben
county; Belle is the wife of M. V. Margeson, of Hammondsport,
this county ; Andrew F. of Savona ; and Lillie is the wife of Will-
iam Covel, of Elmira.

Abner T. Niver was afforded the advantages of the public
schools of his native township and under the direction of his father
he served a thorough and practical apprenticeship to the trade of
blacksmith. This ancient and important line of industry has been
given his attention during the long intervening years and he has
been signally prospered through his well-directed efforts. His
shop is well equipped for the handling of all kinds of blacksmith
work and a specialty is made of repairing vehicles and agricultural
implements. Mr. Niver has achieved success through his own efforts
and is the owner of valuable real estate in his home village of Caton,
besides which he is a stockholder of the Bell & Century telephone
companies. He and his wife hold membership in the Baptist church
and are zealous in the various departments of its work. He is affili-
ated with the local tent of the Knights of the Maccabees and is also
identified with the Sons of Veterans. In politics Mr. Niver has
ever been aligned as a stanch supporter of the cause of the Demo-
cratic party and he has been a zealous worker in its local ranks,

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being at the present time a member of the Steuben county commit-
tee of the party. He has served as tax collector of Caton town-
ship and has been given other evidences of popular confidence and
esteem.

Mr. Niver's eligibility for membership in the Sons of Vet-
erans is based upon the valiant service of his father as a soldier of
the Union in the Civil war. The father enlisted in Company D,
One Hundred and Forty-first New York Volunteer Infantry, and
he continued in active service for one year, at the expiration of
which he received his honorable discharge.

In the year 1879 was solemnized the marriage of Abner
T. Niver to Miss Mary E. Johnson, who was born in Yonkers, West-
chester county, New York, on the 15th of October, 1856, and who
is a daughter of Jacob G. Johnson. Mr. and jMrs. Niver became the
parents of four children, all of whom are living and their names
and respective dates of birth are here entered : W. Clay, February
21, 1882 ; Cloy D., May 16, 1884 ; Pansy B., August 1, 1887 ; and
Drexel U., July 7, 1888. Pansy E., the only daughter, is now the
wife of William E. Beeman, of Corning, Steuben county. Jacob G.
Johnson, father of Mrs. Niver, was likewise a gallant soldier in the
Civil war. He enlisted at the inception of the war as a member
of Company F, Third Connecticut Regiment, with which he was
in service from May 14, 1861, until the 12th of the following
August, when he received his honorable discharge, at the expira-
tion of his term of enlistment. On the 2nd of September, 1864, he
again enlisted and he continued in service until the close of the
war, having received his final discharge on the 2nd of May, 1865.

David Burton Winton was born at Camillus, New York,
March 3, 1837, and as he lost his parents at an early age his home
was with an aunt in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and an uncle in
Havana, the Empire state. This covered the earlier years of his
life until he joined his older brother in California.

At the age of eighteen he sailed from California for Australia
and China, on business for his brother, and after his raturn he
located in Chicago. In 1859 he married Miss Frances J. Gillet, of
Addison, New York (where he had spent two years at an earlier
date), and their home was in Chicago for five years, when they
returned to Steuben county. There Mr. Winton entered into part-
nership with Mr. Lattimer in conducting the Addison Bank. At
eleven years of age the former had joined the Presbyterian church,
and for some years before his death was ruling elder of the church
in Addison. He died in 1898, leaving a wife and six children.

Michael Joseph Reagan is a valued member of the New York
State Board of Mediation and Arbitration and has charge of its
office in New York city at 381 Fourth avenue, and he is one of the
sterling citizens given to the national metropolis by Steuben county.
He was born in Hornellsville, that county, on the i2th of December,

HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 9G5

1865, and is a son of William and Julia (McCarthy) Reagan, who
took up their abode in Hornellsville about the year 1850. There
the mother died on November 4, 1906, and there the father still
maintains his residence, the city being now known as Hornell. Of ■
the family of four sons and four daughters, three sons and three
daughters are now living, and he whose name initiates this article
is the youngest of the number.

Mr. Reagan was reared to maturity in his native town and
he secured his early educational training in the parochial school
conducted by the Sisters of Mercy and in the public schools. He
later completed a course in the Albany Business College, in the
capital city of the state, being graduated in this institution as a
member of the class 1889. In his early childhood he traveled about
quite considerable for one of his j^ears. He attended all the noted
events at the time, such as the Courtney and Hanlon boat race on
the Potomac River May 19, 1880, at Washington, D. C. ; the funeral
of President of the United States James A. Garfield in Cleveland,
Ohio, September 26, 1881 ; the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge May
24, 1883. His first employment was as a brick haker at fifty cents
a day for the Thatcher Brick Company and as helper at the Raw-
son Foundry Company. The next employment was as trainman on
the Western Division of the Erie Railroad. On June 1, 1883, he
left the service of the Erie Railroad and went as far west as Ocono-
mowoc, Wisconsin, where he secured a position as clerk in the
Townsend House, a summer resort, where he remained until the
house closed, about September 10, 1883. His next employment was
in a like capacity with the Southern Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri,
where he remained from October 1, 1883, until July 1, 1884. On
account of the serious illness of his mother at this time he was
summoned to his old home at Hornellsville. He remained at home
and re-entered the service of the Erie Railroad as trainman and
baggageman, and was employed with Conductor Hiram Hurty on
trains 3 and 12 between Elmira and Dunkirk, and afterwards served
with such old timers as Jerome Farnham, Clarence Stannard, H. L.
May, W. S. Kimble, George AVright, LeGrand Tillman, Edward
Carroll, Del Wescott and Doctor R. N. Thomas, nearly all of whom
have gone to the great beyond from whence no traveler returns.

In January, 1886, with other friends (Arthur Maloney and
John Weldon) he organized a railroadmen's union known as Local
Assembly 7460, Knights of Labor, and was its first master work-
man. On September 20, 1887, he was appointed to a clerkship in the
Bureau of Labor Statistics at Albany, New York, by Commissioner
Charles F. Peck, having been endorsed for the position by Mayor
James B. Day and the late Hon. John McDougall. Soon after ac-
cepting this position he passed a state civil service examination and
was promoted to the position of special agent of the Bureau, where
he remained through the consolidation of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics with the Factory Inspection Bureau and Board of Media-
tion and Arbitration by Governor B. B. Odell during the legis-

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lative session of 1901, and now presided over by Commissioner
John Williams and known as Department of Labor. On Decem-
ber 1, 1906, Mr. Reagan was further promoted by being named as
Industrial Mediator and member of the State Board of Mediation
and Arbitration (this being a subdivision of the Department of
Labor) by Commissioner P. Tecumseh Sherman and placed in
charge of the branch ofifice of the Bureau in New York City. Mr.
Reagan has served under Commissioners Peck, Dowling, Mc-
Donough, McMackin, Sherman and Williams since the beginning
of his employment in the state service.

In the meantime he had identified himself with the Tenth
Battalion National Guard, New York, having enlisted in Company
B April 22, 1890, with the following military record both in the
National Guard of the State and the United States Volunteers
during the Spanish American war.

In National Guard, New York.

Private Co. B, Tenth Battalion, April 22, 1890; full and honor-
able discharge March 10, 1897. Re-enlisted same day. Corporal
April 29, 1898. Sergeant September 25, 1899. Pull and honorable
discharge October 17, 1899. Commissioned First Lieutenant as In-
spector of Small Arms Practice Tenth Battalion N. G. N. Y. July
26, 1904. Rendered supernumerary May 1, 1905. First Lieutenant
and Battalion Quartermaster Tenth Regiment Infantry May 5,
1905, with original rank. Supernumerary and re-assigned January
21, 1908, with rank from July 26, 1904.

In United States Volunteer Army.

Corporal Company B, First Regiment Infantry May 20, 1898,
Mustered out at Camp Presidio, San Francisco, California. July
19, 1898, on account of promotion, having been commissioned as
Second Lieutenant 202d Regiment Infantry N. Y. Volunteers July
6, 1898, and assigned to Company M. First Lieutenant October 1,
1898, and mustered out of United States service at Savannah,
Georgia, April 15, 1899. Served with the latter regiment, which
was the first United States troops to go through Havana, Cuba
(December 9, 1898), after its capitulation, and was stationed with
the regiment at Pinar del Rio and Guanajay as the army of occupa-
tion until relieved by the First Infantry United States Army in
command of Major Dougherty. The regiment left the Island of
Cuba about March 25, 1899, and was stationed at Camp Onward,
Savannah, Georgia.

Mr. Reagan is particularly proud of the Commissions he has
held in the United States volunteer service and the New York
National Guard signed by Governors Black, Roosevelt, Odell, Hig-
gins and Hughes.

Lieutenant Reagan with his other duties was acting quarter-
master and had charge of all railroad transportation while serv-
ing with the regiment both in the United States and Cuba. While
at Camp Meade with his regiment a vacancy occurred as first
lieutenant of Company M, of which he was the second lieutenant.

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Several applications were made by members of the regiment of the
same grade in rank as Mr. Reagan, all of whom were his senior.
When filing his application for the first lieutenancy, Colonel Sey-
burn informed him that he had not only endorsed him for first
lieutenant in writing but had telegraphed same to Adjutant Gen-
eral Tillinghast at Albany, as follows : "I nominate Second Lieu-
tenant Michael J. Reagan for First Lieutenant in this regiment.
Reagan has done the work. Signed S. Y. Seyburn. Colonel 202d
Regt. Inf. N.J. Vols."

"While with the First Regiment Infantry, New York Volun-
teers, at Port Wadsworth, New York Harbor, orders were received
from the War Department by Colonel Barber to proceed to the
Philippine Islands, via San Francisco, and the regiment left Jer-
sey City, New Jersey, over the Brie Railroad on the morning of
July 7, 1898, but the orders were changed and the regiment went to
Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, instead. When the section of the train
in which he was en route arrived at his old home early in the
morning of July 8th a great reception had been arranged by his
friends and neighbors in good old Hornell. The committee in charge
were Judge James H. Clancy, Colonel James Schwarzenbach, Hon-
orable Milo M. Acker, William H. Murray, Charles H. Armsted and
W. H. Prangen. With the band out in full regalia and a crowd
of at least five thousand people gathered at the Erie Depot the
send off and good cheer Mr. Reagan and the soldier boys received
by the assembled multitude before the train departed on its west-
ern journey was certainly immense and will always be cherished
most highly by him as one of the proudest moments of his life.

Mr. Reagan is an ex-commander of Frank Rockwell Palmer
Camp, No. 28, United Spanish War Veterans; a charter member
of Albany Council No. 110, Knights of Columbus; a member of
the Catholic Union ; Branch 83, the Catholic Mutual Benefit Asso-
ciation; Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division 4; the Robert
Emmet Association ; and Old Guard, Company B, Washington Con-
tinentals of Albany, New York. He is a member of the Army and
Navy Club, the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish Amer-
ican War, Society of American Wars, Commandery of the State
of New York, president of the Bronx Borough Taxpayers' Pro-
tective Alliance, member of the Bronx Lodge, No. 871, B. P. 0. E.,
and the Steuben Society of New York City.

Mr. Reagan has a very extensive acquaintance throughout
the state among the leading business and professional men and with
officers and members of labor organizations, he having traveled for
about fifteen years throughout the state for the department with
which he has been connected as special agent, which required such
travel and investigation. He has always been a great admirer of
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the late governor of New York,
'^rank W. Higgins, with each of whom he has had a very friendly
acquaintance.

On April 10, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Reagan

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and Miss Mary E. Burke, of Albany, New York, at the Sacred Heart
church, by the Rev. Father Peyton, and they have four children:*
Mary B., William Harold, Frank Higgins and Ralph.

Dr. Charles A. Carr. — The Carr family, which is represented
in. Steuben county by Charles Audubon Carr, the well known prac-
titioner and citizen of Corning, has given of its industry, integrity
and ability in the pioneer activities and progress of three states —
Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and New York. Wherever its members
have planted their homes, there have been found worthy examples
of those staying qualities which have always marked the best types
of the Anglo-Saxon or the Englishman and his American sons
of the eastern United States.

To reach the source of the Carr family in America it is neces-
sary to revert to Benjamin Carr, a native of the world's metropolis,
born August 18, 1592, ten years before the first English navigator
explored the shores of Massachusetts and New England, and twen-
ty-eight years before the Pilgrims established their colony at Ply-
mouth, on the shores of Massachusetts bay. When Benjamin Carr
was a few weeks past his majority — or, to be more precise, or
September 2, 1613,— he took to wife Martha Hardington. They
were married in London and died there, having become the parents
of five children, the eldest of whom, Robert Carr, founded the
American branch, of which Dr. Carr is an offshoot.

This American forefather, who was born in London, England,
on the 4th of October, 1614, boarded the ship "Elizabeth Ann,"
May 5, 1635, and, with his brother Caleb, sailed for Narragansett
Bay, Rhode Island. They came as pioneers to that region and, as
is the custom of the far-sighted Englishman, at once commenced
to buy land. It appears from the records that Robert was ad-
mitted as an inhabitant of Portsmouth February 21, 1639, and as
a freeman in Newport, Rhode Island, March 16, 1641. He was
one of the original purchasers of the island of Conanicut in Nar-
ragansett Bay, buying of the Indiana a considerable share of its
six thousand acres. He also acquired a considerable property in
Newport, and died in 1^81, a substantial citizen of most honorable
standing. Of his six children, Caleb Carr was born in Newport and
married Phillis Green, daughter of deputy governor Green of
Warwick, Rhode Island, where she was born in October, 1658. At
his death in 1690 his widow was made executrix of a considerable
estate. Caleb Carr and his wife were the parents of seven children,
of whom their son, Caleb Carr, Jr., was a direct forefather of
Dr. Carr of this sketch.

Caleb. Carr, Jr., was a . native of Jamestown, Rhode Island,
born on the 26th of March, 1670, and was, married, at that place
to Joanna Slocum, by her father Ebenezer Slocum, warden— the
ceremony occurring April .30, 1701. . The husband afterward set-
tled, with his family, at West Greenwich, that state, became a

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY Dfi'J

freeholder in 1731, and died in 1750, leaving a large property to his
five sons.

Caleb Carr (the third American by that name) was, like his
father, a native of Jamestown, Rhode Island, where he was born
November 6, 1702, and died at West Greenwich in 1769. His wife
Sarah was born November 8, 1711, and died in November, 1798,
mother of thirteen children.

The great-great-grandfather of the doctor was Eleazer Carr,
who was born in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, April 22, 1746,
and married Eleanor Stafford; settling in Rensselaer county. New
York, where he died July 19, 1816. They had six children.

Rev. Stutely Carr, son of the above, was a vigorous, patriotic
and Christian man, born in Rensselaer county, New York, on the
5th of July, 1773; he married Sybil Dyer (daughter of George and
Ann Dyer) in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, on the 16th of Feb-
ruary, 1791. His wife was born in that town on the 1st of August,
1772, and died December 4, 1839. Mr. Carr settled in Salisbury,
New York, where he lived many years. He was much interested
in military matters, as well as in religious work, and served as
captain in the New York State Militia, his commission from Gov-
ernor George Clinton bearing date of March 5, 1802. He died in
the town of Spring, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, on the 3rd
of June, 1840, and was the honored sire of sixteen children.

Captain George Carr, the grandfather of Dr. Carr, was born
in Salisbury, New York, June 28, 1794, marrying Nancy Gris-
wold, at Dry den, that state, on the 22nd of August, 1813, being
then little more than nineteen years of age. His wife was his
senior by nearly four years, having been born in Dryden Sep-
tember 16, 1790, and dying at the extreme age of ninety-one. For
some years they resided at that place, then settled at Almond, New
York, where they lived until about 1855, when they located in
Hector, where the husband and father died April 13, 1870, at the
home of his son, Stutely H. Carr. He received his military title
for the fine service which he rendered in the war of 1812, receiving
an honorable discharge at its close, as well as a land r/arrant and
a pension in special recognition of his standing as a soldier and
a patriot.

Stutely Hurd Carr, the father, was one of seven children and
was born at Dryden, New York, January 11, 1822, his wife (whom
he married at Almond, New York, February 24, 1848), being a
Aative of Westfield, Pennsylvania, born May 13, 1829, and a
daughter of Christopher Schoonover, one of the first settlers and
pioneers of Cowanesque valley. In 1854 Mr. Carr moved upon a
wilderness farm in Potter county, Pennsylvania, and at the out-
break of the war had made a comfortable homestead of it. But in
the fall of 1861 he left wife and family to jojn the ranks of Cpm-
pany D, Fifty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, and later served
in Company G, Two Hundred and Seventh Pennsylvania Volun-
teers. He followed the varying fortunes of these commands with

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the faithfulness of a true soldier whose family fought so well in
the war of 1812, and at the close of the war had participated in
many of its great battles. At the notable charge of Fort Stead-
man he received a gunshot wound in the calf of one of his legs,
from the effects of which he was confined in hospital when the
Army of the Potomac was disbanded after Lee's surrender; so that
he did not reach home until about eight weeks after the virtual
close of the war. He received two honorable discharges, carrying
with them a land warrant and a pension. Both parents died at the
home of their son, Dr. Carr, in Corning; the father, March 23,
1904, and the mother, on the 21st day of March, 1905, two days
before the anniversary of her husband's death. The father of the
family of six children was a farmer and a blacksmith who had
enjoyed a fair common-school education ; was a life-long Methodist,
always a Christian gentleman, and a sturdy representative of the
American middle class, upon which is based the best of the nation 's
life.

Dr. Charles A. Carr is a native of Hector, Pennsylvania, and
was born on the 19th of February, 1864. He received his early
education in the district schools of Pennsylvania, and completed
his preliminary literary studies in the Westfield Graded school and
The Knoxville (Pennsylvania) High School. In 1887 he was
matriculated at the Baltimore Medical College, from which he
graduated in April, 1890. In the following June he located for
practice at Caton, Steuben county, where he continued until 1895.
He then entered the School of Ophthalmology, Otology and Laryn-
gology of New York, and after finishing the course in that institu-
tion became a resident practitioner in these specialties at Corning.
His career there has given him a high reputation as a practitioner
and a citizen.

Dr. Carr has taken deep interest in local public affairs. In
politics he is a Republican; has served two terms as alderman in
the Corning city council, and was health officer of Caton and Corn-
ing for about eight years. In a more strict professional sense, he is
a member (vice president) of the Corning Medical Association, of
the Steuben County Medical Association and the New York State
Medical Association; is visiting physician of the Corning Hospital
and lecturer to its training classes for nurses. He is also earnestly
identified with the Christian and Missionary Alliance.

On May 7, 1891, Dr. Carr wedded Miss Effie D. White, daughter
of John C. and Lucy Ella (Davis) "White, her father being a
farmer who died October 7, 1872. Mrs. Carr was educated in
the Corning Free Academy, from which also her son (Harold, born
in June, 1892), graduated in June, 1911.

Dr. Carr is the sixth and youngest son of- Stutely H. and
Julia S. Carr. He has four brothers living, viz. : . Dr. James G,
Carr, a noted Optometric Eye Specialist located at Harrison Valley-,
Pennsylvania, where he enjoys a. .large, and -lucrative practice 5
W. W. Carr, who resides in Bath, New York; H. E. Carr, of 218

HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUI^TY 971

Bridge street, Corning, New York; S. A. Carr, of Clayton, Kent
county, Delaware.

W. W. Carr was bom in Almond, New York, January 5, 1854,
and is the father of five children by his wife, Bertha Chisholm,
whom he married in Cameron, New York, January 1, 1878. She
died in February, 1898, and he has since remarried. His children
are: Alfa May (Carr) Shattuek, bom December 22, 1879; Will-
iam Clifford Carr, born July 2, 1881 ; James Earl Carr, born April
29, 1883; Bessie Eva (Carr) Shattuek, bom April 4, 1889; Minnie
Adelia Carr, born June 3, 1895. They all reside in Steuben
county, New York, at or near Bath.

H. E. Carr was bom in Hector, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1855.
He married Eva Dorr in Elmira, New York, October 25, 1881. She
was born in Elmira, New York, November 27, 1861. They have
two sons, viz.: Dr. Fred D. Carr, bom July 22, 1882, who
graduated from the University of Vermont, College of Medicine,
with high honors, on June 24, 1908. He followed this with a year's
hospital practice, after which he located for the practice of his
profession at Caton, Steuben county, New York. He was married to
Mary Thaler on December 25, 1909. They had one child, Margaret
Louise Carr, bom December 25, 1910. Leigh S. Carr, born August
1, 1884, was married to Winnie Lovejoy October 6, 1'909. They are
located at 218 Bridge street. Corning, New* York, and he is con-
nected with the Corning Cut Glass Works.

Delano D. Cottrell. — An enterprise that has added mate-
rially to the commercial prestige of North Cohoeton is the subscrip-
tion business of Mr. Delano Dempster Cottrell. It is most inter-
esting to note the evolution of this business from the beginning to
the present time and in a following paragraph this matter will be
dwelt on in full detail. Mr. Cottrell was born at Oswego Center,
Oswego county. New York, on the 8th of June, 1864, and is a son of
Eev. Andrew Jay and Harriet Elizabeth (McKee) Cottrell, the
former of whom was born at Sandy Creek, Oswego county. New
York, on the 6th of January, 1836, and the latter is a native of
Ellisburg, Jefferson coimty. New York, the date of her nativity
being July 9, 1838. As a youth Eev. Cottrell learned the shoe-
maker's trade and early became interested in church work. He at-
tended the Adams Academy in Jefferson county, New York, and
in 1863 entered the ministry in the Methodist Episcopal church, but
was obliged to give up the work after two years' service. He fol-
lowed business pursuits until 1879 when his health having become
better, he again entered the ministry. He retired from the minis-
try in 1903 and was summoned to the life eternal on the 13th of
December of that year. Eev. Cottrell had three brothers, one who
is living in the south, one who served in the Union Army in the
Civil war and who now resides at Albany, New York, and a third,
also a veteran of the Civil war, who died some twenty-five years
ago. ilrs. Cottrell was a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Wild)

972 HISTORY OF STEUBEN COUNTY

McKee and was a twin sister of Helen E., who married Ward
Sprague, Sandy Creek, New York. Mrs. Cottrell died at the home
of her son March 1, 1911, having made her home with him since
the death of her husband. The Cottrell family is descended from
one of three brothers which emigrated from England to Rhode
Island about three hundred years ago and the proprietor of the
noted Cottrell Printing Press Company is a descendant of one of
these brothers. On the mother's side Mr. Cottrell is of Scotch-Irish
extraction.

Mr. Delano Dempster Cottrell received excellent educational
advantages in his youth and for a time he was engaged in the peda-
gogic profession. He was graduated from the Sandy Creek high
school in 1880 and in the following year he pursued a business
course in the Belleville, New York, Academy, and the winter of
1881 taught school in Point Peninsula, New York. In 1882 he was
matriculated in Syracuse University at Syracuse, New York, as a
member of the class of 1886. The two years beginning fall of 1884,
he taught school at Deer River, and New Bremen in this state. For
a period of nearly ten years he was traveling salesman for the E. L.
Kellogg Company, at that time the largest publishers of educational
papers and professional teachers' books in the United States. In
connection with this wjork he covered a territory of twenty-five dif-
ferent states and attended many national, state and county educa-
tional gatherings, where he met many of the prominent teachers
and leaders in the educational world. In 1894 he located at North
Cohocton, New York, where he began his present business, concern-
ing the history of which a brief article from the Elmira Star Ga-
zette, of November 11, 1907, is here incorporated, with but slight
paraphrase.

Mr. Cottrell began the subscription-agency business in a small
way. His first attempts were made in the house of his mother-in-
law, where he utilized the dining-room table in the evening when
the family work was done. He then removed to a house between
North Cohocton and Atlanta, New York, where he remained for one
year. In April, 1895, he removed his ever increasing business into
a building next to the hotel in North Cohocton, known as the
"Three-story Building," which at that time was considered a pre-
tentious structure. The business was a great success from its in-
ception under the guidance of Mr. Cottrell, so that, in 1900, he
erected a fine office building, thirty by forty-eight feet, with the
postoffice in one side of the same building, he having been ap-
pointed postmaster in January of that year. This building was
very much enlarged in 1897 so that now its complete dimensions are
forty-five and a half by eighty-eight feet, the new postoffice on one
side being fifteen and a half feet by thirty-five. It is one of the
finest postoffices in the country in a town of this size and is finished
with steel ceiling and side walls painted white, is splendidly lighted
and meets all the requirements of the town and Mr. Cottrell's busi-
ness. The subscription department includes large offices, working

HISTORY OP STEUBEN COUNTY 973

rooms and a fire-proof vault. The structure is a model building
and seventy-five or more persons are here employed during the busy
season. When Mr. Cottrell first started his business he found it
difficult to secure enough one-cent stamps at the local postoffice,
and an effort on his part to buy fifty dollars' worth from the North
Cohocton postofiice led to a government request to the postmaster
for an explanation as to why he needed so many stamps. Some ap-
preciation of the business of the oflice can be obtained when it is
stated that the postage paid by Cottrell's Subscription Agency to
the North Cohocton postoffice has been nearly six thousand dollars
in a single month. The postoffice became a third-class office on the
first of January, 1900, and a second-class one on the first of July,
1905. Mr. Cottrell was appointed postmaster by President Mc-
Kinley, in 1900, and reappointed by President Eoosevelt in 1904
and in 1908. He is allowed a deputy, a clerk, and temporary clerks
as needed in the postoffice.

Mr. Cottrell's first issue of catalogs was ten thousand, and it
has now run up to nearly a million a year. In addition to this he
issues circulars to the extent of some six to ten million per year,
doing mailing for a large number of publishing houses. As the
name indicates, his business is that of securing subscriptions for all
kinds of American and foreign publications and during the busy
season several thousand of such subscriptions are received daily.
The total number of subscriptions annually amounts to a number
of hundred thousand, the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday
Evening Post being the leaders at this office. The agency is one of
the largest in the United States and is by far the largest of any in
the country in a town of the size of North Cohocton. Orders are
received from all parts of the world. A large business is received
from the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands. Every civilized
country in the world is represented in their list of customers and
there is hardly a postoffice in the United States that does not send
orders to the Cottrell Agency.

Several years ago the Periodical Publishers' Association of
America was organized. The association at once made an effort to
secure uniformity in all clubbing offers advertised and called the
larger subscription agencies into a conference concerning this mat-
ter. The result was a complete schedule of clubbing offers. The
responsibility of having this schedule complete and correct to date
of publication is generally placed on Mr. Cottrell. This schedule
is sent to all the subscription agencies of the country by the lead-
ing publishers, who require that subscriptions must not be taken for
their periodicals except in accordance with its terms and conditions.
His wide experience, business tact and a special genius in this line
make him naturally a leader, so "that he is one of the most promi-
nent figures at the present time in this business in the world. Under
his management and through his clubbing offers the public has been
able to get more for the same money than previously, and the pub-
lisher nets a larger price for his publication, as the expense for ad-

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vertising and securing subscriptions is largely borne by Cottrell's
Agency. It is estimated that their customers altogether saved one
hundred thousand dollars in the year of 1910 by placing their sub-
scriptions through the agency instead of sending them direct to the
respective publishers and paying the publishers regular prices. The
great foundation principle of Mr. Cottrell's business has been to
make the money of his customers as safe in his hands as in their
own pockets. The clerks are uniformly trained to treat their cus-
tomers just as they themselves would like to be treated.

Mr. Cottrel] supplies hundreds of libraries, reading rooms and
clubs with all their periodicals, and so high is the reputation he
has built in this business that he frequently receives signed checks
from old customers left blank for him to fill in the cost of the
periodicals desired. His long experience in this business has re-
sulted in a splendid system of handling subscription orders which,
although laborious and full of detail, insures accuracy and satisfac-
tion to both subscriber and publisher. His agency enjoys the ad-
vantage of being closer to the large publishing centers of the coun-
try than any other large agency, and a letter from his office is the
next day in the hands of any publisher in the eastern cities. Mails
arrive and depart from the North Cohocton office ten times daily.
Mr. Cottrell's general catalog and bargain list of periodicals should
be in the hands of everyone in the United States interested in read-
ing. The catalog contains information that every reader of period-
ical literature should know, and will be mailed free to anyone on
request.

Mr. Cottrell is often honored by invitations to the Periodical
Publishers' banquets, gatherings of the leading editors, authors,
artists, publishers and advertising agents of the country. He is in-
timately acquainted with and enjoys the personal esteem of many of
the foremost literary men and publishers of the United States. He
is a gentleman of the highest personal and business standing and his
agency has been the means of bringing much of the best literature
of the world into American homes.

In politics Mr. Cottrell gives an uncompromising support to
the principles and policies of the Eepublican party and he is 9,
liberal contributor to all movements projected for the general wel-
fare of the community. He is giving efficient service as a member
of the board of school directors and he manifests a deep and intel-
ligent interest in all educational matters. He is also trustee of the
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima. In a fraternal way he is
affiliated -with the time-honored Masonic order and both he and his
wife are devout members of the Methodist Episcopal church in
which he is steward and financial secretary.

On the 2nd of June, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Cottrell to Miss Edith Charlotte MegafEee, who was born on
the 15th of November, 1868, the place of her birth being Hillsdale,
Michigan. She is the daughter of Edward MegafEee and Cynthia
(Smith) Megaffee. Her father, Edward Megaffee, died at Somer-

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set, Michigan, in 1876, but her mother resides at North Cohocton.
Mrs. Cottrell came to North Cohocton in 1876. Mr. and :Mrs. Cot-
trell have two children, Edward Jay, who was born on the 8th of
:\Iarch, 1895, and Lora Belle, born on the 25th of May, 1903. The
son was graduated from the high school at North Cohocton in June,
1910, and from the Military Academy at Bordentown, New Jersey,
in June, 1911, at which school he won the Buckley scholarship
medal for highest standing in his studies during the year.

Leveeett J. Simpson. — The career of Leverett Jerome Simpson,
who resides at Canisteo, Steuben county. New York, is a splendid
example of what may be accomplished by young manhood conse-
crated to ambition and high purpose. He is a lawyer, a self-made
man, recognized throughout this community for his ability and
conscientious dealings with his clients. His start in getting a high-
er education was particularly difficult, and in similar circumstances
many young men would have become discouraged and given up the
fight, but obstacles, instead of discouraging Mr. Simpson, spurred
him onward, giving him that aggressive, persistent determination
which has resulted since the period of his first struggles in steady
progress and success, and brought him the esteem of both the judi-
ciary and associate attorneys.

A native son of Steuben county. New York, Leverett J. Simp-
son was born in the town of Jasper, the 7th of March, 1871. His
father, Jerome Madison Simpson, was born in the town of Lenox,
Madison county, New York, on the 20th of January, 1839. As a
young boy 13 years of age Jerome M. Simpson came to Steuben
county, locating in the town of Jasper, where he passed the residue
of his life. He was successively a harness-maker, a farmer and a
carpenter. He was active in the local formation of the Republican
party, to whose principles and policies he gave an uncompromising
support and in the local councils of which he was ever a zealous
factor. He was ever public-spirited in his views, and active so far
as he had opportunity to advance the general welfare of the com-
munity and county in which he lived. He served most creditably
as justice of the peace for a period of forty years, being incumbent
of that position continuously except for a term or so. He was a
great and enthusiastic reader of the very best books and papers and
although his preliminary educational training, had been of some-
what meager order he had, by reason of his studious habits, ac-
quired more than an average mind at the time of his death, which
occurred August 13th, 1895, at the age of sixty-six years.

He married Miss Nancy Ann Griffin, who was born in Cazeno-
via, Madison county, New York, on the 23d of May, 1831. She was
a daughter of Asa Griffin, who removed to the town of Jasper when
she was a young girl 8 years old, where she still lives, loved and
respected by all. To Mr. and Mrs. Jerome M. Simpson were bom
four children: DeWitt, Asa, Leverett J. of this review, and Leslie,
all of whom are living, the third in age being the subject of this
sketch.

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Mr. Simpson, of this notice, was reared to adult age in the town
of his birth, where he attended the public schools until he had
reached the age of eighteen years, at which time he entered Can-
isteo Academy, in the village of Canisteo, from which institution
he was graduated as a member of the class of 1890. After leaving
the Academy he worked at the carpenter's trade for two or three
years, in the meantime continuing his studies as he worked and
doing post-graduate work in the Academy. He then took up the
study of law under the able preceptorship of Eli Saule, of Canisteo,
one of the best lawyers in Steuben county. At the end of a three
years' clerkship he passed the bar examination at Rochester, in
June, 1899, being admitted to the New York bar in the following
July. He immediately began the active practice of his profession
in the village of Canisteo and November 5, 1900, entered into a
partnership for the practice of law, with Eli Saule, continuing
therein until the death of the latter, in 1902. Mr. Simpson was
decidedly successful in the legal profession from the beginning,
building up and controlling a valuable clientage. In addition to
his law practice, he is deeply interested in business affairs in Can-
isteo and in connection therewith is vice-president of the First State
Bank.

At Jasper, New York, on the 8th of August, 1900, was solem-
nized the marriage of Mr. Simpson to Miss Eva L. Taft, who was
reared and educated at Jasper and who is a daughter of Merritt
M. and Maria N. Taft. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have no children.
They are popular and prominent in connection with the best social
activities of Canisteo and their attractive and beautifully located
home is recognized as a center of gracious refinement and generous
hospitality.

In his political convictions Mr. Simpson endorses the cause
of the Republican party but while he has never manifested aught
of ambition for the honors or emoluments of public office he is
deeply and sincerely interested in all public questions whether local
or national, contrilDuting in generous measure to all projects ad-
vanced for the good of the general welfare. He has been a mem-
ber of the Board of Education for a number of years past and at the
present time is president of that body. In his religious faith he is
a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is also his
wife, and they are both very actrve in connection with church and
charitable work. He has been superintendent of the Sunday school
since 1901 and is deeply interested in temperance work. He is a
total abstainer from all intoxicants and tobacco and he is a strong
influence for good among the younger generation in Canisteo. He
is affiliated with a number of professional organizations of repre-
sentative character and in fraternal way is a valued and appreciative
member of the time-h<mored Masonic order. Mr. Simpson has
achievfid marked distinction in this section and his success is the
more gratifying to contemplate inasmuch as it is the direct result
of his own well directed endeavors. He is an extensive reader, a

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keen lawyer, and a safe counselor, and a man whose whole life is
founded on the motto that while greatness is desirable, goodness is
indispensable to the most useful life, and that ethical and religious
theories are only valuable to the extent in which they successfully
work out in practice. Guided by these he has sought to make him-
self highly respected by the bar, of use to the community and a
citizen to be trusted.

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